How to Use bifocal in a Sentence

bifocal

1 of 2 adjective
  • Adair wore his bifocal sunglasses and a navy blue baseball cap.
    — Jeff Maysh, Los Angeles Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
  • There are eyes with mirrors, eyes with optical fibres, and eyes with bifocal lenses.
    — Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2011
  • To train a bifocal vision on both the thing and its shadow is an act of respect that begins to undo fear of the unknown.
    — Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The company also has bifocal and prescription options for most of their frames.
    — Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
  • Each time, my cloudy natural lens was replaced with an artificial, bifocal one.
    — Gayle Carline, Orange County Register, 6 Jan. 2017
  • Progressive or bifocal lenses are also available for an additional charge (from $99).
    — Nishka Dhawan, USA TODAY, 6 May 2021
  • Benjamin Franklin is credited with inventing bifocal glasses.
    — Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2011
  • Some other bifocal contact lenses, prescribed off-label, work about as well as the new CooperVision product, Walline’s research has found.
    — Fortune, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Another features the Phanatic in his best Ben Franklin cosplay, complete with bifocal glasses (which Ben invented).
    — Nikki Dementri, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Patients who need help focusing at different distances (say, were nearsighted but were also developing presbyopia) were once relegated to bifocal glasses or the more seamless progressive lenses.
    — Alexandra Ossola, Quartz, 15 Sep. 2021
  • There is no cure for the disease, but treatment options to help with symptoms include physical and occupational therapy, Botox, antidepressants, eyeglasses with prism or bifocal lenses, and Parkinson’s disease medications.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 13 Nov. 2025

bifocal

2 of 2 noun
  • These space glasses aren't much like your grandma's bifocals.
    — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010
  • The older woman next to me kept her bifocals fixed on the large font of her Kindle, unaware.
    — Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Blond hair in braids, bifocals firmly in place, a wide-open smile displaying a hatchwork of braces on wayward teeth.
    — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • But the days of popping reading glasses on and off or constantly shifting your gaze through bifocals may be numbered.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2017
  • That's the condition that causes people with good eyes to pick up reading glasses, and those with glasses to turn to bifocals.
    — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010
  • Even so, in the Wayne County of the future, silver hair and bifocals will proliferate.
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2018
  • The usual solutions to the issue are either picking up a pair of reading glasses, or swapping your daily lenses or contact lenses for bifocals.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
  • For example, bifocals correct both nearsightedness and farsightedness with the same lens.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Leah Wright, 56, a public school bus driver, came to see Presley speak in Biloxi last week wearing bifocals that were twisted and missing an arm.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Vision and hearing problems, such as trouble dealing with bifocals or having tinnitus, can also affect balance, Kurtakoti said.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Others may use bifocals, trifocals, or progressive lenses, which adjust magnification for both near and distant vision.
    — Team Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Besides his contribution to science, Franklin is known for inventing the Franklin stove, bifocals and the glass armonica, Davis said.
    — Rosemarie Dowell, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Blue light filters, UV filters, lenses of varying thicknesses, bifocals, and progressive lenses are all available for additional fees with any pair of frames.
    — Hilary Tetenbaum, Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2024
  • Warby Parker said that progressives, trifocals and bifocals make up roughly 40% of all prescription units sold industrywide.
    — Nino Paoli, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2025
  • In the film, Khan blames Kirk for the death of his wife and seeks to destroy the Enterprise’s enterprising leader, who’s now a Starfleet admiral contemplating bifocals.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 19 June 2018
  • Strumming a shiny acoustic guitar, the winsome memaw launches into her parody rendition, weaving hearing aids, retirement, RVs, bifocals and more into the three-minute lyrical journey.
    — Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2017
  • This scene—though nowhere captured in the familiar imagery of Franklin flying his kite and inventing bifocals—was, in its day, as significant as that of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
  • Benjamin Franklin would invent bifocals in 1874, Thomas Young would spot the uneven curvature of the cornea (astigmatism) in 1801, and steel wire would be developed in metal frames after 1837.
    — Daniel Fusch, Ascend Agency, 11 Nov. 2025

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