MICROSCOPE in a Sentence

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She continued to stare at him, the flame of the unshaded lamp bringing out with microscopic cruelty the fretful lines of her face.

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 Meanings and Examples of MICROSCOPE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
microscope
 n.  a device that uses lenses to make very small objects look larger
Classic Sentence:
1  He was remotely interested; but like a man looking down a microscope, or up a telescope.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  She could never have believed in the morning that her colourless inner world would before night become as animated as water under a microscope, and that without the arrival of a single visitor.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer
3  Bazarov had brought with him a microscope, and busied himself for hours together with it.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  He went back to his microscope, but his heart was beating, and the composure necessary for taking observations had disappeared.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
6  Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
7  Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48. Ideology.
8  I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
9  My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
10  She continued to stare at him, the flame of the unshaded lamp bringing out with microscopic cruelty the fretful lines of her face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
11  A microscopic examination for trichinae shall be.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
12  No microscopic examination will be made of.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  So is the microscopic examination for blood corpuscles.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
14  His daily life was of a curious microscopic sort, his whole world being limited to a circuit of a few feet from his person.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
15  The only motion in the air was that of the dripping, microscopic particles of drizzling mist.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  Abnormalities in the cells can be seen quite clearly under a microscope.
2  The microscope magnified the object two hundred times.
3  Love looks with telescope; envy with microscope.
4  The microscope capacitates small objects to be observed.
5  The structure of molecules can be seen under an electron microscope.
6  The artwork took 10 days using a single rabbit hair as a paint brush and a microscope is required to look at the masterpiece.
7  One of the most hyped games of the current generation, No Man's Sky has quickly become one of the most controversial; the space sim launched with much fanfare, but quickly came under the gaming community's microscope.
8  They tease tissue for microscopic examinations.
9  But, on rare occasions, microscopic metal particles can lead to a short circuit within the cell, causing overheating and potentially flames.
10  It would be a good idea to treat all the walls in the room because mildew is a microscopic spore and even though it may not be visible, it may still be present.
11  But, on rare occasions, in their words, microscopic metal particles can lead to a short circuit within the cell, causing overheating and potentially flames and that is a sober statement for anyone using a Sony-powered computer.
12  The cells were identified through microscopic analysis.
13  And in exceptional circumstances, microscopic intestinal parasites have survived to indicate some of the health problems that people suffered.