How to Use lens in a Sentence

lens

1 of 2 noun
  • Make sure the lens of the microscope is clean.
  • At night dad will turn the lens on you.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Bed-Stuy shaped my lens on life.
    — Essence, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The lens is a good pick for close-up snaps, too.
    — PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • But there’s also a long-term lens here.
    — Dianna Russini, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Patience and a good zoom lens are your friends here.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Then, simply aim your lens at the sky and snap away!
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Each custom lens costs less than $1 to make.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The zoom lens will set you back by $4,599.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Or, as true my own faulty lens can ever depict them.
    — Amanda Uhle august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But there is a core lens through which the team evaluates films.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
  • Early doesn’t approach her through the lens of drag.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • Through the lens of today, this is shocking.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Through the lens of today, this is shocking.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Jan. 2026
  • There is some reason to use the lens at tiny apertures, though.
    — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026
  • This second piece turns the lens inward.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Think through the lens of abundance, not scarcity.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • That global lens shaped the final choice.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2026
  • Here, a peek through resale’s lens on fashion.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There's room for one body, a lens, and small accessories.
    — Julie Rousseau, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
  • But sometimes, taking a wide lens helps.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • That enforcement record is the lens through which these three funds will be read.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • That’s one lens for comparing stocks.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The green display is sharp and easy to read (with lens inserts, in my case).
    — PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Canon bundles the lens with a hood, front and rear caps, and a drawstring pouch.
    — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 16 Mar. 2026
  • But Shraya turns the lens onto herself as well.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • None of this floaty stuff, but getting right in there, with lens flares in the hot sun and lots of flies.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Arguing that the league is healthy through this lens is a mistake.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And this is where Parashat Va’era turns the lens back toward us.
    — Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Photos and videos captured by the glasses are good for a lens this small.
    — Ben Sin, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025

lens

2 of 2 verb
  • The fourth in a series of families lensed by @willyvanderperre.
    — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The pic, which is set in Charleston, SC, will lens next year.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
  • However, planets can also bend space enough to lens the light of background stars.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The crux of the hunt for the first stars is looking for stars that have been gravitationally lensed.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The Chris Hemsworth-starring actioner had been set to lens in Australia.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Tanja capped off her royal meeting with a quick photoshoot lensed by Edwards, a surreal experience for her.
    — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 May 2019
  • These have also been observed along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy, where individual stars likely cause the lensing effect.
    — NBC News, 7 June 2017
  • Globe photojournalist Stan Grossfeld took his long telephoto lens to the park during a recent series.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
  • The distortion is caused by the camera lens the photographer used, not a secret conspiracy to digitally stage the photo.
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 7 May 2021
  • Richard Avedon lensed her five Vogue covers, in all of which the model is heavily accessorized with big jewelry and, in one case, a silver tinsel wig.
    — Vogue, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The many bits of space junk orbiting Earth, from foil scraps to lens caps to chunks of frozen urine, can damage satellites and spacecraft, which is why researchers have long sought methods to remove debris from orbit.
    — Patrick Morgan, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2011
  • Sometimes, the light of distant supernovae is bent, or lensed, by an intervening galaxy, creating multiple images of the same supernova.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Optical stabilization moves lens elements to compensate for any motion, a useful feature for getting sharper handheld photos.
    — PCMAG, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Each photographer on this list is already quite prolific, shooting magazine covers, releasing coffee table books, and lensing major ad campaigns.
    — Jessica Andrews, Teen Vogue, 7 Aug. 2018
  • Under his usual pseudonym Nagao Nakashima, Chung lensed the dramatic parts in crisp, artfully composed black-and-white, while capturing footage as if seen from a dash cam in glowing color.
    — Maggie Lee, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • However, what's really caught our eye is the fact that the empowering images lensed by Mayan Toledano show Lourdes unapologetically flaunting her armpit hair.
    — Kristin Corpuz, Teen Vogue, 21 May 2018
  • Hadid noted that shooting this calendar was much different than her first time appearing in Pirelli's 2015 calendar lensed by Steven Meisel.
    — Chrissy Rutherford, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 July 2018
  • The periscopic telephoto lens, on the other hand, is likely to more than triple the iPhone’s maximum optical telephoto capability from 3x to around 10x.
    — Paul Monckton, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Two supermassive black holes on a dizzying death spiral could soon become visible to astronomers after researchers worked out how, while rotating around each other, these dark, massive behemoths could gravitationally lens the stars behind them.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Yang's directorial debut, Tigertail is deliberately shot, lensing each setting distinctly.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2020
  • OnePlus, which offers up phones, headphones and accessories, partnered with digital camera and lens brand Hasselblad to develop new smartphone cameras for future OnePlus devices over the next three years.
    — Zoe Malin, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Cinematographer Checco Varese excels in lensing Pennywise’s nightmarish interludes with a gorgeous, surreal and inviting texture.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019

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