How to Use camera in a Sentence

camera

noun
  • Smiling for the camera with your diploma in hand is a classic pose, obvi.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The camera showed Truett's mother-in-law, whose name Truett did not share, playing with their pets.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Some of them were related to being partially nude on camera, too.
    Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The first five performances were performed live on camera, then a pre-recorded version was shown for the rest of the run.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Goh’s mother braids their hair for school; Goh braids their own hair, tattooed fingers darting in front of the camera.
    Ash Goh Hua, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Gutierrez Reed did not appear on camera during the hearing as it was streamed on YouTube.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
  • In the photo, the gymnast and teacher, 27, held up her hand in front of the camera while showing off her dark red manicure.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • An array of diverse classes range from costume design for dance and millinery to scenography and designing for the camera.
    Cathy Whitlock, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Researchers had to make scientific arguments for directing its camera this way or that.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
  • In the black-and-white images, the actor wears nothing but Calvin Klein boxer-briefs while smoldering for the camera.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Even when aurora is invisible to the naked eye, smartphone cameras are often sensitive enough to detect them.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • From the beginning, one of the frequent components of her everyday life was coffee—usually cold brew, the ice clinking in the glass on camera.
    Kinsey Crowley, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Meagher often films reviews of major fashion weeks from his apartment in Manhattan, with little more than a camera and microphone.
    André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2023
  • There were hundreds of witnesses — but alas for the world, evidently no TV news cameras, which would never happen now, in the age of cellphone videography.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The producers quickly identified Duke as on-camera material.
    Jennifer Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The proposal was caught on camera for the season 6 finale of Gene Simmons Family Jewels.
    Tabitha Britt, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In addition to this update, Roku is expanding TV notifications to include alerts from all your cameras — not just your video doorbell.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Many in front of the camera were acting for the first time in their lives.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
  • For them, the lights and cameras of a movie premiere were brand new.
    Michael Appler, Variety, 30 June 2024
  • Film, to me, often reflects the person at the helm of the camera.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Even if one of them is behind the camera—at least for now.
    Geoffrey Bunting, TIME, 24 May 2024
  • The incident was caught on camera, and the nurse was fired from her job.
    Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • But the live camera chats were starting to fill up with worries, prayers and tributes to the bear.
    Andrea Salcedo, Natalie B. Compton, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2023
  • The video jumps to the R&B star singing from on top of a bed while biting his lip and looking into the camera.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Momoa is a camera aficionado and a big fan of the Red Dot.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Yes, but: In track, the cameras are only focused on the 5 mm near the finish line.
    Ina Fried, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
  • At the end, the helicopter took a pass over the museum where staffers waved at the camera.
    Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • And Reigns knows how important the Bloodline has been to him, on camera and off.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • While Banuelos is in the photo, his back is turned away from the camera, along with Hadid.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The selfie camera on the front captures 13MP photos at f/2.2.
    PCMAG, 6 Apr. 2024

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