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Example sentences for "seen through"

  • For if you look through a small hole there is nothing so large that it cannot be seen through it and the object so seen appears surrounded and enclosed by the outline of the sides of the hole.

  • I find that any luminous body when seen through a dense and thick mist diminishes in proportion to its distance from the eye.

  • The sides of the nest, though very strongly woven, can be seen through.

  • It is so slightly constructed as to be seen through, and it appears quite surprising that so large a bird, to say nothing of the weight of the three or four young ones, does not entirely destroy it.

  • The sides and bottom are strong, but so thin that they can everywhere be seen through.

  • National Industry advanced materially during the period we have just described, and among other things, the glass, which had been hitherto imported chiefly from France, began to be seen through by the English manufacturer.

  • At all events, if he had virtues in his youth they were not made to wear, they became sufficiently threadbare to be seen be seen through.

  • He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

  • All this seems to show that while the planet has an atmosphere, it is not transparent like ours, but is so filled with mist and clouds that the sun is seen through it only as if shining in a fog.

  • Moreover, the coating of silver is so thin as to be almost transparent: in fact, the sun may be seen through it by direct vision as a faint blue object.

  • It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.

  • That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista.

  • Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.

  • You will find that, thus, the circular hole looks like one of the patches of colour you have been accustomed to match, only changing in depth as it lets different pieces of the stone be seen through it.

  • Further, if God is seen through a medium, He is not seen in His essence.

  • But if seen by any created light, He is seen through a medium.

  • Objection 1: It seems that the essence of God is seen through an image by the created intellect.

  • This light, however, seen through a medium but very slightly thickened, appears to us yellow.

  • If a green paper is seen through striped or flowered muslin, the stripes or flowers will appear reddish.

  • The movement as seen through a lens resembled that of the hand of a large clock.

  • Even smaller particles cause a slight movement, as could be seen through a lens.

  • The false work represents them with all their details, as if seen through a microscope.

  • Homeric cave, shaded with laurels, and some ships are put underneath it, or seen through it, at impossible anchorages.

  • In this chamber, not upon a screen but suspended in the air, presently appeared an image several thousand times larger than that of the crescent Moon as seen through a tube small enough to correct the exaggeration of visual instinct.

  • The light reflected from their surfaces was of silver radiance, rather than the golden hue of the Moon or of Venus as seen through a small telescope.

  • The eclipse of 1612 was the first "seen through a tube," the telescope having been invented only a few years before.

  • The glass should be smoked densely enough at one end so that the sunlight as seen through it will not dazzle the eye on the clearest days.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seen through" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    availed ourselves; been lost; final appeal; gives them; greenish tinge; justify the; kiss her; letter which; marked beauty; master and; must send; reminding them; seen above; seen anywhere; seen enough; seen from; seen from the following; seen hereafter; seen only; seen that; seen the; seen them; skilled workers; take away; what says; wings and tail blackish