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Example sentences for "viewscreen"

Lexicographically close words:
viewplates; viewpoint; viewpoints; viewport; views; vif; vife; vifs; vigesimal; vigil
  1. After ten hours they saw the huge Jupiter Equilateral orbit-ship looming up in the viewscreen like a minor planet.

  2. Ten minutes later, Tom could see their goal clearly in the viewscreen .

  3. Tawney ignored them, staring at the image of the red planet on the viewscreen almost eagerly.

  4. There was one place no one would think to look for him, if he could manage to keep out of range of the viewscreen lenses .

  5. Ahead, he knew, the viewscreen lenses would be active; if one of them picked him up, it would be quite a jolt to the men inside the ship .

  6. On the control panel a viewscreen flickered to life.

  7. There was no viewscreen in the ship's cabin; it was too tiny for that.

  8. The other officer also returned, bringing a portable viewscreen with him on a contragravity-lifter.

  9. The stadium is covered by a viewscreen pickup which is fitted with a recording device; there is a complete audio-visual of the whole thing, including the attack on them by the campus police.

  10. The viewscreen came on, and in it the city, as seen from an aircar at two thousand feet, spread out with the Palace visible in the distance, the golden pile of the Octagon Tower jutting up from it.

  11. Vall flipped a switch and twiddled a dial; a viewscreen lit up, showing the landing stage.

  12. But--" He gestured to the viewscreen across the room, tuned to a pickup back of the Speaker's chair in the Council Chamber.

  13. He stepped aside, revealing a viewscreen behind him; when he pressed a button, the screen lighted; on it was a stationary picture of Kostran Galth as Salgath Trod, his right hand raised in front of him.

  14. We do not propose to concern ourselves here with those technical subjects which are the chief concern of standard treatises on instrumentation.

  15. But adjustment to a complex environment may be reached in two ways; by instinctive adaptation through initially stereotyped behaviour; or by plastic accommodation by acquired modifications.

  16. They rounded a corner where a viewscreen picked up the image of the moon, so familiar, now the only thing that was familiar about this Earth.

  17. One of the young boys in the hall looked up at the corridor viewscreen and pointed at the star and then shrugged.

  18. The defending Palace Guards began to drop as the Seniors used viewscreen images to pick and focus on their targets.

  19. He returned to the controls and sat down, staring into the blank viewscreen and visualizing the morning's unexpected, perhaps disastrous, developments.

  20. The top landing-stage of the Citadel grew and filled the forward viewscreen of the ship's launch.

  21. They slumped wearily in chairs; they smoked and drank coffee; they anxiously looked from viewscreen to viewscreen, wondering when, and how soon, the trouble would break out again.

  22. Stars burst suddenly against the blackness of space; the viewscreen brightened.

  23. Alan adjusted the fine controls on the viewscreen and brought Earth into sharper focus.

  24. Alan snapped on his viewscreen and looked down at the field; the ground crew men were busily clearing the area as blastoff time approached.

  25. He gave the location of the picture-viewscreen where he had parked Steve, and Kandin shrugged and agreed.

  26. Lake and Craig left their stations, as impatient as Fenrir, and came over to watch the viewscreen with him.

  27. He went to the viewscreen and saw that the battle was over.

  28. The viewscreen tracked it for an instant, then continued its scan.

  29. He brought the hair-lines on the viewscreen to center on the approaching figure, and squeezed the grip.

  30. A low tone sounded, and the viewscreen activated.

  31. When lunch was ready, they were all in the living room, with the viewscreen on; after lunch, the whole gang went into the bedroom for a nap on Pappy Jack's bed.

  32. Stay by the communication screen, and keep the viewscreen on for news.

  33. Harcraft, who was now fiddling with the viewscreen controls.

  34. With the viewscreen at maximum magnification, they watched as the asteroid blew itself into a thousand million pieces.

  35. He switched on the ship's outside floodlights and the viewscreen came to bright white life, showing the empty glades reaching away between groves of purple alien trees.

  36. The viewscreen showed their chemically-powered vehicle emerge from the trees and roll swiftly across the glade.

  37. The viewscreen was black in the light of the control room, even though it was high noon outside.


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