How to Use lens in a Sentence

lens

1 of 2 noun

• Make sure the lens of the microscope is clean.
• The lens offers a 5x-6x optical zoom — up to double the zoom of the iPhone 14 Pro.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2023
• Each artist looked at the song through a different lens.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2024
• Below, take a peek at the action through Abrams’s lens.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2023
• Twist the lens barrel to turn it on, frame your shot, hit the shutter button, and voilà.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
• This case isn’t so much as a case as a couple of bumpers on the top and bottom to protect the edges and the lens bulge.
  — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2023
• One of the more expensive parts of the cameras built-in to smartphones is the lens system.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
• Transparent lens membrane of the right eye covers the iris.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
• In the box, there are nine step-up rings that can attach to the thread on the lens of a DSLR or mirrorless camera.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2023
• The key feature of ultrasound is that it can be focused, just like light with a lens.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
• The solar rays can burn through the lens and cause serious eye injury.
  — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
• The other lens to it is based on this concept of moral licensing.
  — David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• In the first sweet shot, Wilson looks away from the camera as Royce looks curiously at the lens.
  — Jenny Haward, Peoplemag, 11 June 2023
• The lens used to view those who clearly handle things by the book in the sport always is smaller, it should be stated.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• And the other is a young aspiring artist at the pinnacle of success as far as the way the world sees him within the lens of the show.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
• The lens splits the incoming beam into a multitude of light spots, each of which can hold an atom in place.
  — Katherine Wright, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
• With a lens that has an f2.8 aperture as well, low light conditions won’t stop you.
  — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2023
• The lens in a 4-inch telescope has a much larger 12-square-inch light collecting area.
  — M. Josh Roberts, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
• To be fair Harbaugh framed the comparison through the lens of teammates.
  — Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 27 July 2023
• As far as lens tint goes, there are a few different colors that could help with seeing on the course.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 19 July 2023
• Installed in 1847, the great refractor with its fifteen-inch lens was, for twenty years, the largest telescope in the U.S.
  — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
• With several colors and lens shapes to choose from, kids ages 3 to 8 will love picking their fave.
  — Ambrosia V. Brody, Parents, 14 Mar. 2024
• Each episode of the season is told in a different genre, and Isabel's tale is through the lens of a Hitchcockian thriller.
  — Town & Country, 30 Aug. 2023
• Meghan Markle has been able to stay largely out of the paparazzi's lens in California.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 17 June 2023
• The first is a long telephoto lens to get a close view of the sun during the eclipse and the second is a wider angle lens to capture both the eclipse and the landscape around you.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2024
• The strike damaged a camera lens inside the backpack, Brace said, according to the report.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• For Hall, the rise of courses tackling social constructs through the lens of pop culture is only a good thing.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2024
• Depicting a workplace drama through the lens of horror was her plan all along.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2023
• Chan has also given her a new lens through which to see a child’s behavioral problems.
  — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• Satter chooses to see the moment through a less binary lens.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024

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lens

2 of 2 verb

• The fourth in a series of families lensed by @willyvanderperre.
  — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 22 Jan. 2018
• The crux of the hunt for the first stars is looking for stars that have been gravitationally lensed.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2018
• The Chris Hemsworth-starring actioner had been set to lens in Australia.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 31 Aug. 2021
• These have also been observed along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy, where individual stars likely cause the lensing effect.
  — NBC News, 7 June 2017
• Richard Avedon lensed her five Vogue covers, in all of which the model is heavily accessorized with big jewelry and, in one case, a silver tinsel wig.
  — Vogue, 13 Apr. 2018
• And when astronomers see lensing caused by apparently invisible mass, the distortions allow them to map vast fields of dark matter.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 10 Feb. 2016
• The distortion is caused by the camera lens the photographer used, not a secret conspiracy to digitally stage the photo.
  — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 7 May 2021
• Globe photojournalist Stan Grossfeld took his long telephoto lens to the park during a recent series.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
• Hadid noted that shooting this calendar was much different than her first time appearing in Pirelli's 2015 calendar lensed by Steven Meisel.
  — Chrissy Rutherford, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 July 2018
• The periscopic telephoto lens, on the other hand, is likely to more than triple the iPhone’s maximum optical telephoto capability from 3x to around 10x.
  — Paul Monckton, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021
• Tanja capped off her royal meeting with a quick photoshoot lensed by Edwards, a surreal experience for her.
  — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 May 2019
• In February, researchers also announced that lensing helped them find possible signs of planets outside our own galaxy.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Apr. 2018
• Under his usual pseudonym Nagao Nakashima, Chung lensed the dramatic parts in crisp, artfully composed black-and-white, while capturing footage as if seen from a dash cam in glowing color.
  — Maggie Lee, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• However, what's really caught our eye is the fact that the empowering images lensed by Mayan Toledano show Lourdes unapologetically flaunting her armpit hair.
  — Kristin Corpuz, Teen Vogue, 21 May 2018
• Sometimes, the light of distant supernovae is bent, or lensed, by an intervening galaxy, creating multiple images of the same supernova.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2020
• OnePlus, which offers up phones, headphones and accessories, partnered with digital camera and lens brand Hasselblad to develop new smartphone cameras for future OnePlus devices over the next three years.
  — Zoe Malin, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2021
• Each photographer on this list is already quite prolific, shooting magazine covers, releasing coffee table books, and lensing major ad campaigns.
  — Jessica Andrews, Teen Vogue, 7 Aug. 2018
• Cinematographer Checco Varese excels in lensing Pennywise’s nightmarish interludes with a gorgeous, surreal and inviting texture.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
• Yang's directorial debut, Tigertail is deliberately shot, lensing each setting distinctly.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2020
• The fourth in a series of families lensed by @willyvanderperre.
  — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 22 Jan. 2018
• The crux of the hunt for the first stars is looking for stars that have been gravitationally lensed.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2018
• The Chris Hemsworth-starring actioner had been set to lens in Australia.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 31 Aug. 2021
• These have also been observed along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy, where individual stars likely cause the lensing effect.
  — NBC News, 7 June 2017
• Richard Avedon lensed her five Vogue covers, in all of which the model is heavily accessorized with big jewelry and, in one case, a silver tinsel wig.
  — Vogue, 13 Apr. 2018
• And when astronomers see lensing caused by apparently invisible mass, the distortions allow them to map vast fields of dark matter.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 10 Feb. 2016
• The distortion is caused by the camera lens the photographer used, not a secret conspiracy to digitally stage the photo.
  — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 7 May 2021
• Globe photojournalist Stan Grossfeld took his long telephoto lens to the park during a recent series.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
• Hadid noted that shooting this calendar was much different than her first time appearing in Pirelli's 2015 calendar lensed by Steven Meisel.
  — Chrissy Rutherford, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 July 2018
• The periscopic telephoto lens, on the other hand, is likely to more than triple the iPhone’s maximum optical telephoto capability from 3x to around 10x.
  — Paul Monckton, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021
• Tanja capped off her royal meeting with a quick photoshoot lensed by Edwards, a surreal experience for her.
  — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 May 2019

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024