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Example sentences for "magnifying"

Lexicographically close words:
magnified; magnifier; magnifies; magnifique; magnify; magniloquent; magnis; magnitude; magnitudes; magnitudine
  1. Mercury deposits in minute globules, which may be seen with the magnifying glass.

  2. Arsenic forms a ring, which, when examined with the magnifying glass, is seen to be made up of minute crystals.

  3. The big veins stood out upon his temples, and the hand that still held the magnifying glass was now clenched in a grip of iron, that trembled, not from weakness, but from the violence of his anger and emotion.

  4. He had beheld the catacombs through the magnifying glass of those imaginative authors, and had believed them to be vast, similar to subterranean cities, with broad highways and spacious halls, fit for the accommodation of vast crowds.

  5. The fabrick of the wing, as it appears through a moderately magnifying Microscope, seems to be a body consisting of two parts, as is visible in the 4.

  6. This microscope possesses three different magnifying powers, namely, those of two lenses separately, and the two in combination.

  7. The cuneiform characters on most of them were singularly sharp and well-defined, but so minute in some instances as to be illegible without a magnifying glass.

  8. He took a magnifying glass and began to make methodical observations.

  9. But what was the good of magnifying troubles?

  10. Mario came and viewed the violins shown to him by Gemuender minutely, nay, even took a magnifying glass to examine the varnish, whereupon he declared to Gemuender that they were genuine instruments.

  11. Occasionally, though rarely, the tube which is formed possesses another of the attributes of a telescope--that of magnifying the objects at which it is directed until they seem of life-size.

  12. In the cooler months the tranquillity of the image and the sharpness of vision are such, that hardly any limit is set to magnifying power but that which arises from the aberration of the specula.

  13. Mr. Dawes has invented a peculiar contrivance, by means of which he has been enabled to scrutinise, under high magnifying power, minute portions of the solar disc.

  14. The observer was seated in a suspended movable seat at the mouth of the tube, and viewed the image of the object with a magnifying lens or eye-piece.

  15. Again, in Scutum Sobieski is one nebula in the shape of a horseshoe; but which, when viewed with high magnifying power, presents a different appearance.

  16. The first binocular magnifying glass or simple microscope (German, Lupe) was devised by J.

  17. It troubled me a great deal at first, but I was successful in diminishing instead of magnifying it, and it was fortunate for me that I had much to occupy my mind in other ways during the few following weeks.

  18. Lately I had given up the search, and had argued myself into a half belief that it was a delusion, produced by my dwelling upon the subject, and magnifying it into undue importance.

  19. He held it out upon the flat of his palm, the better for Cleek to see and to admire it, and signed to his son to hand the visitor a magnifying glass.

  20. You remember when I excused myself and went back on the pretext of having forgotten my magnifying glass the other day?

  21. Halfway down the stairs, however, he excused himself on the plea of having forgotten his magnifying glass, and ran back to get it.

  22. He has named the obstacles to be encountered only for the sake of magnifying the fertility of his invention in overcoming them.

  23. It is interesting to observe the development of the explosion by running the machine quite slowly, and by thus magnifying time to follow the changes which ordinarily occur in such rapid succession that the eye is unable to perceive them.

  24. Most unfortunately, the fossils were very fragmentary, the leaves in themselves small and often indistinguishable in color from the rock, so that their examination was made almost entirely under the magnifying lens.

  25. With a magnifying glass it is plainly seen that the margin of the cup-shaped receptacle into which the sporangia are gathered has not the toothed border to be found in the case of the Tunbridge Filmy Fern.

  26. If examined with a magnifying glass it will be seen that the edges of the pinnules are bordered with bristling points.

  27. If you take a magnifying glass you can see all its details multiplied.

  28. The contrast of divers colours placed next one another was more startling than we find in later painting, whilst an effort was made to finish every detail as though it were to be looked at through a magnifying glass.

  29. Sidenote: Method of determining the magnifying power of the telescope.

  30. Cabin fever no longer tormented them with its magnifying of little things.

  31. There are also other disadvantages attendant on the habitual use of a magnifying glass.

  32. I have long been of opinion that many young persons, when beginning to learn the art of wood engraving, have injured their sight by unnecessarily using a magnifying glass.

  33. I would recommend all persons to avoid the use of glasses of any kind, whether single magnifiers or spectacles, until impaired sight renders such aids necessary; and even then to commence with such as are of small magnifying power.

  34. Let the heads in the Lyons cuts, and those of any copies of them, old or recent, be examined with a magnifying glass, and the excellence of the former will appear still more decidedly than when viewed with the naked eye.

  35. The magnifying glass used by wood engravers is similar to that used by watch-makers, and consists of a single lens, fitted into a short tube, which is rather wider at the end applied to the eye.

  36. Then he smelled it, and snatched up from the table a little magnifying glass which he used in studying all the niceties of handwriting.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "magnifying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.