How to Use prism in a Sentence

prism

noun
  • Cash should not be viewed through the same prism as Digne.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • And the ice cubes are a very nifty trapezoidal prism shape.
    Zach Epstein, BGR, 28 Aug. 2021
  • But there will be a point at which he will be viewed through the prism of the team’s record.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The prism that is forever linked to Dark Side of the Moon?
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2023
  • What’s the best prism through which to view these numbers?
    Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 13 Dec. 2019
  • On It column looks at self-help through the prism of deities.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
  • The case should be viewed through the prism of mental illness.
    George Houde, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • But that’s not the prism through which players look at things.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2019
  • This is the prism through which the team's performance should be viewed.
    Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2020
  • The best sports movies tell you about life via the prism of their specific game.
    Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
  • In recent times, the forces that have fueled the broad U.S. stock market can be seen through the prism of the Dow.
    Peter Santilli, WSJ, 26 May 2021
  • Viewing it through an 11-game prism won’t cut it for him.
    Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2022
  • It’s the life of Saudi Arabia through the prism of the lead character.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
  • And celebrity is the prism through which most of the viewing public is seeing the … well, star of the show.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • One includes a ruler, a prism, and a diagram of a frog.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The Browns view the Bengals game from a different prism.
    cleveland, 31 Oct. 2020
  • This film’s going to be seen through two different prisms, through the left and through the right.
    Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The light might reach the camera via optical fibers or a prism.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 30 June 2021
  • Overseas most Sikhs view the protests through the prism of livelihood, not statehood.
    Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Everything the Trump team does should be viewed through this prism.
    Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 29 May 2018
  • No such approval was granted for either the prism or the tablet.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Through this prism, so many of the surrounding events started to make sense to them.
    Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 17 June 2022
  • My goal with this book was to tell a life story through the prism of stuttering.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
  • So everything in the sport is through that prism, to an extent.
    Sam Blum, Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2020
  • There are many ways to interpret that, but one of them is through the prism of loss avoidance.
    Neil Irwin, New York Times, 13 July 2018
  • And second, the Dolphins built the present roster looking at the team from the prism of a two-year window.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
  • Viewed through the prism of turnout, the people who didn’t vote in the last election are deciding this one.
    David Yanofsky, Quartz, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Mandela’s prism on the world was a small window with six bars but little to see.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
  • In the afternoon light, the stairwell becomes a prism and rainbows fill the space.
    New York Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The song refracts like a prism at high noon, filled with stuttering blips that shapeshift at each turn.
    Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024

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