How to Use oculus in a Sentence

oculus

noun

• Light bursts through the main area of the home through windows and an overhead oculus light.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 10 May 2019
• The great room is 28 by 28 feet, capped by a concrete dome with a large central oculus skylight.
  — Mark Philben, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022
• The circular swimming pool with the round oculus up top is very cool and special and has a sort of Palm Springs romance to it.
  — Jenny Xie, Curbed, 11 Nov. 2021
• In the master bedroom on the top floor, a remote control lies by the bed that opens an oculus in the roof for nighttime stargazing.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• High overhead, an open hole, or oculus, invited the sky in.
  — Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
• The new oculus is lit with orange light, and the corridors are lined with digital screens.
  — Jason Laughlin, Philly.com, 19 June 2018
• The aquarium experience ends with a chance to observe sharks and other denizens of the deep through the prism of a 31-foot oculus lens.
  — Patti Nickell, chicagotribune.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• The oculus — really, just a hole in the roof — appears projected.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2021
• Spotlights and floodlights surrounded the stage while the spidercam snuck through the air; a ring of clouds or sunbursts or flames lit up the stadium’s oculus.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2021
• Three levels down, visitors can peer all the way up through the saltwater and the flotilla of fish thanks to a huge oculus — a 31-foot-wide angled porthole — at the tank’s bottom.
  — Andres Viglucci, miamiherald, 4 May 2017
• Depending on the season or the time of day, a glass oculus at the ceiling’s 18-foot peak can be opened or closed, regulating the temperature.
  — Leilani Marie Labong, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Even inside that charred interior, you are not cut off: The world enters through that oculus, reminding you it’s there.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2020
• In the Pantheon, in midwinter, Sophia thrust her hands into the single column of falling snow, a white ghost in the middle of the rotunda swirling down from the dome's central oculus.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2021
• Visitors first encounter the oculus, which opens up above the museum's main entrance.
  — CNN, 11 July 2021
• Once the scaffolding was removed, the walls alone had to endure the pressure of the gargantuan concrete roof, which was immense even with the famed oculus in the dome's center relieving some of the load.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2017
• Generous windows and an oculus draw light into the depths of the wings, which feature a range of flexible study and gathering spaces.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
• Images of the interior show sunlight pouring through an oculus at its apex.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2020
• The wood pavilion’s cylindrical shape riffs on industrial bottle furnaces found around Stoke-on-Trent and will have an open oculus in its domed roof.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 8 Feb. 2022
• The oculus, meanwhile, has transformed into a black felt rectangle seemingly tacked to the ceiling.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2018
• This theory says that the Pantheon was meant to be a microcosm of the universe: all the gods surrounding you, the dome above symbolizing the heavens, and the oculus symbolizing the sun.
  — Christine Van Blokland, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2017
• The five columns holding up the steel slab symbolize the five branches of the military, with the newest sixth military branch, the US Space Force, represented by an oculus at the center of the steel slab.
  — Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
• Designers also plan to cut a hole in the cement, brick, and iron ceiling of the ground floor and install a 25-foot-wide glass oculus through which visitors can see the building’s ornate dome far above the first-floor reading room.
  — Michael E. Ruane, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• In a ring beneath the oculus are eight digital projectors, each directed against a mirror, their beams fine-tuned to compensate for any glare or hot spots.
  — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020
• Finally, a round opening is scooped out at rooftop level, forming an oculus that brings light into the pavilion’s lowest level.
  — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
• The Pantheon’s eye is an open-air oculus, but modern rotundas are typically closed.
  — Lia Picard, WSJ, 11 May 2022
• Changi’s website reads like a brochure for an all-inclusive resort: free movies in 24-hour theaters, retro arcade games, light-and-sound shows starring the soaring waterfall spilling from an oculus in a roof.
  — Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2019
• Riccardo Hernandez’s severe unit set is monumental — a set of wide gray stairs, rising to a tall concrete wall, pierced by an oculus.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2022
• As the sky grew darker, our journey drew to a close; the dome brightened to a crescendo of almost blinding white, and the oculus appeared as a flat, solid disk of inky black, with no color or feature or hint of anything to suggest the world beyond.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2021
• The Barclays Center will honor the legendary rapper and hometown hero by featuring a video montage of classic Biggie records on the massive oculus display above the arena’s entrance.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 17 May 2022
• In Wong's design, the cosmic riddle translates into three arcing shapes: an oculus, sphere and inverted dome, referencing the sun, moon and stars, respectively.
  — CNN, 11 July 2021

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024