How to Use aperture in a Sentence

aperture

noun
  • We entered the cave through a narrow aperture.
  • The photograph was taken using a fast shutter speed and a large aperture.
  • The rear doors swing open wide, and child seats pass through the apertures with ease.
    — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 19 Jan. 2018
  • On the plus side, flare is not an issue at any aperture.
    — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Edges and corners are soft at wide apertures.
    — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
  • There is some reason to use the lens at tiny apertures, though.
    — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026
  • For a rear sight, for all-around use, the best choice is the ghost-ring aperture.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Day, date, and month are aligned in a single aperture.
    — Stephen Watson, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2026
  • That’s not to say that goes away, but there’s been a widening of the aperture.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 7 May 2024
  • With a lower aperture, the lens lets more light into the shot.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The book opens its aperture to the amplest of wide angles, too.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Still, these are aimed more at birding and lack the aperture for stargazing.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • This is the type of storm that can tighten the aperture of people’s lives for a time.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Through this aperture, sunlight could filter all the way down to the church floor.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The aperture is the opening in the camera sensor that lets in light.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • One is a soaring circular aperture that looks like a huge lens.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Open up your aperture for talented and skilled people from all over the world.
    — Mary Juetten, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Because, by the way, this is a gun with a solid barrel; there is no aperture.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The aperture ring is properly indexed, and each click makes a one-third stop change.
    — PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In the ceiling overhead, a larger-than-life aperture opens to the light.
    — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 21 June 2021
  • For example, how far is the aperture of the zone around the 11 host cities?
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 June 2025
  • Tripods can also help, as can shooting photos in low apertures.
    — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • The Roku pact, which starts this fall, is also an effort to widen the aperture.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The aperture ring works as expected.
    — PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Shutter speed should not be confused with aperture, which has to do with how wide the shutter opens.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The key detail is the pair of arced countdown apertures at 12 o’clock.
    — Troy Patterson, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2017
  • The aperture doesn't close down smaller than f/16 in this instance.
    — PCMAG, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Set into the walls, apertures — barred like the windows of a jail cell — appear to look out onto a clear sky.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020
  • In Stubb’s Cave, strangler-fig roots teemed from ceiling apertures.
    — Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Tripods and shooting photos in low apertures can also help viewers snap a shot of the northern lights.
    — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026

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