How to Use magnify in a Sentence

magnify

verb
  • The sound was magnified by the calm air.
  • His failures have been magnified by the success of his friends.
  • I don't want to magnify the importance of these problems.
  • The lens magnified the image 100 times.
  • This magnifies the sense of your own power.
    — Carolyn Dewar, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Gains may be magnified, but so can losses.
    — Wyles Daniel, Sacbee.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Minute prints, while quaint and cozy, can magnify a room’s tininess.
    — Lauren Joseph, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2022
  • For my small business, that cost is magnified.
    — Nick Payzant, Oc Register, 25 Feb. 2026
  • That third eye — a magnifying loupe, it's called — doesn't leave his head.
    — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
  • This bad habit can magnify a range of skin issues, and can leave your skin red, flaky and parched.
    — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • In places the yellow hue is magnified by ugly brown and black spots.
    — Huizhong Wu, CNN, 2 May 2018
  • That magnified and multiplied and went up and up and up and up from there.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Need to magnify something, such as small text on the side of a pill bottle?
    — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 5 June 2021
  • In countries where the rule of law is weaker, the risks are magnified.
    — Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The next couple of months will magnify this dilemma for sports fans.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2022
  • One eye is magnified and obscured, while the other looks naked.
    — Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
  • So that's magnified, but there's so many things that happened prior to that.
    — Shaun McAvoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But that message must be magnified.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Steady truth will magnify our impact.
    — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Mike, a tall man who keeps a smile on pilot-mode at all times, has glasses that magnify his dark eyes.
    — Jonathan Kauffman, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2018
  • But on a longer cast, just a slight bit of droop will magnify into larger and larger loops.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The curved mirror can magnify the image much like a lens, Voigt says.
    — Bysara Reardon, science.org, 14 Apr. 2023
  • This will just magnify the pain to extend it to other countries.
    — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
  • That’s a feature, not a bug, of spinoffs, which don’t so much solve a problem as move it and magnify it.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Teasing apart the factors that magnified the floods has been the tough part of the new research.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2018
  • With how tight the West is this year, every game becomes magnified down the stretch.
    — William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Everything is magnified when the Phillies do not score many runs.
    — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 31 May 2026
  • Still, the Laser has one glaring fault that is magnified in the context of this elite group.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The highlights of the show were overshadowed by the low points, and those were magnified by the length of the card.
    — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Mountains magnify the flood threat.
    — Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025

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