How to Use monocle in a Sentence

monocle

noun
  • The monocle device will come in black or white, and two frames will be available at launch.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Plus, no one has ever made a monocle look this cool before, and no one ever will again.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Maybe Slider could start wearing a a monocle and draw a fake fencing scar on his cheek.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Cradock arrived on stage draped in fur, Johnnie in a tux and with his trademark monocle.
    — Ashawnta Jackson, JSTOR Daily, 20 Jan. 2023
  • John Ritchie, stands to his right, wearing shorts, a polo shirt and what appears to be a monocle.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • She was followed by Meredith who wore his monocle threaded on a silver chain.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Before your monocle pops out at the price of the mains, remember this is by a hotel and priced accordingly.
    — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Brandy is something monocle-wearing dudes swirl in a snifter while reclining on a Chesterfield.
    — Sarah Baird, GQ, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Forbes zipped up his jacket, put on his hat and leather gloves and climbed over the passenger seat to get to the driver seat behind the monocle windshield.
    — David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2017
  • The ruthless military officer with the monocle and the swagger stick who sends his men to senseless death and/or turns traitor.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The Sparks forward formed a circle with her thumb and forefinger, holding the loop over her eye like a monocle while flashing a wide smile.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
  • Of course, this month’s Sturgeon moon will be a spectacle even without the supermoon monocle.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The role of Eustace went, this time around, to Spike Lee, who traded in the classic monocle for a movie camera.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Rather, the mature audience member sports two monocles fused together, with little hooks behind the ears.
    — Sarah Garfinkel, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2024
  • With its top hat and monocle, Mallard is sort of reminiscent of season 2's Fox.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • One of my favorite photos of my grandfather shows him at the race track wearing a black tuxedo and top hat, his trademark monocle on his nose, buttery leather gloves clasped in his hand.
    — András Szántó, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2018
  • Firstly, there was this brilliant snap of Tatum apparently asleep, with the beginnings of his brand new face, including a monocle drawn around one of his eyes.
    — Amy MacKelden, Marie Claire, 19 Mar. 2018
  • This time, the puppet — a remarkable monocle-wearing crow — is a single character, on the scene to investigate a murder.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 21 May 2022
  • There were several volumes of them, each bound between homemade cardboard covers, each with a cutout of a twit regarding a butterfly through a monocle pasted on the front.
    — Bruce McCall, Town & Country, 22 July 2013
  • After giving him a monocle, a curly mustache, a soul patch and drawings on his forehead, North carefully places the eyeliner in the elf's arm next to her brother.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
  • After giving him a monocle, a curly mustache, a soul patch and drawings on his forehead, North carefully placed the eyeliner in the elf's arm next to her brother.
    — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The Penguin, for instance, is a woman (Minnie Driver), whose purple top hat and tails and monocle are more for her cabaret act than a disguise.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2024
  • When a father presents their child to the world, the world fawns and coos, but when a director presents their movies to the world, everyone seems to brandish their collective monocle and start panning for errors and omissions.
    — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
  • Unlike the current night-vision goggles, a monocle-like device that shows a fuzzy green picture at night, the new goggles are designed like binoculars and are wirelessly linked to the sight on a soldier’s weapon.
    — Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 9 May 2018
  • Monocle views the world as a single, utopian marketplace, linked by digital technology and first-class air travel, bestridden by compelling brands and their executives.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Republic, 27 June 2017
  • Nabokov started to seem less like a lovable, bumbling Professor Pnin and more like a pitiless White Russian with a monocle and an ebony cigarette holder.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Karl had a beard and a monocle, double-breasted suits, and then in his close friend the limpid-eyed, elegant, and aristocratic Jacques de Bascher a man whom Proust himself could have fallen for.
    — Kennedy Fraser, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
  • Other new emojis include vomiting face, face with monocle, fairy, elf, person doing yoga, Chinese takeout container, T-Rex and flying saucer.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The Penguin is one of the most famous members of the Batman Rogues Gallery, typically recognizable by his top hat, monocle, and wide variety of deadly umbrellas.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Whenever Smith spoke, Monopoly Man nodded approvingly, smoothing his mustache and adjusting his monocle.
    — Ben Popken, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2017

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