How to Use monocular in a Sentence

monocular

adjective
  • There was a small table that held their radios and a night-vision monocular.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Agents use a monocular scope to make note of faraway clues and read micro text with a magnifying glass.
    — Allison Bagley, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2018
  • The monocular goggles meant soldiers could only see nighttime imagery through one eye.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • To the ancient Greeks who dug them up, these skulls might have seemed like the remains of monocular, humanoid giants.
    — Timothy John Burbery, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Get a clearer, bigger picture of the world around you with this portable, lightweight monocular telescope.
    — Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2020
  • With a swing-up eyepiece, this monocular telescope is perfect for anyone who regularly wears glasses or sunglasses.
    — Popular Science, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The views from this monocular are stunning thanks to a combination of optical technology that makes the subject bright and true-to-color.
    — Harry Bennett, Space.com, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Whether a stargazing novice or an experienced amateur astronomer, you’ve probably been tempted to buy a monocular.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Swarovski, source of some of the world's finest binoculars and spotting scopes, has done that with its 8x25 dG digital guide monocular.
    — Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The latest handheld night-vision monocular from Duovox sports a 60% larger sensor than the Ultra before it.
    — New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Oppo’s promo images show the monocular design slotting into a more conventional glasses frame.
    — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The only sensors used are an IMU, a forward-facing depth camera, and a downward-facing monocular camera.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2023
  • For one thing, the AN/PVS-14 was a monocular system using a single image tube.
    — David Szondy may 17, New Atlas, 17 May 2026
  • In other words, this monocular telescope, which can also be paired with mobile phones for taking pictures and videos from a distance, is great for sporting events, concerts, bird watching, camping, fishing, and traveling.
    — Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2020
  • The monocular microdisplay delivers 42 pixels per degree and 5,000-nit brightness, bright enough for outdoor use, and disappears when not in use.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Hypothetical mechanisms of transient monocular visual loss in our patient include vasoconstriction or embolism in the arterial blood supply of the eye.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2014
  • Unlike every other autonomous vehicle developer, Tesla relies on a handful of monocular cameras rather than fusing the inputs from cameras, lidar, and radar.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Locating this leopard would give us the chance to test Usangu’s thermal-monocular night-safari gear, which displays night scenes via temperature differences—curbing the need for disruptive artificial light.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Unlike conventional monocular approaches, no additional metric sensors are used for scale estimation.
    — Evan Ackermanerico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Beyond the prison sentence, Roske must also forfeit the items seized from her luggage, which also included a thermal imaging monocular, tactical gloves and a crowbar and pay a standard $100 special assessment fee.
    — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The method leverages the flying robot’s onboard monocular camera to create both a map of visual features for simultaneous localization and mapping and a dense representation of the environment as an elevation map.
    — Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2016
  • This early Black Friday deal from Amazon takes $50 off the Bushnell Legend Ultra 10x42 monocular and has brought it to its lowest price in a few years.
    — Harry Bennett, Space.com, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Alongside impressive magnification and clarity, this monocular telescope also delivers on convenience.
    — Popular Science, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The systems submitted by Elbit America, L3Harris, and Photonis all reflect a transition from monocular to binocular systems, providing a wider field of view, improved situational awareness, and proper depth perception – so less tripping over air pockets in the dark.
    — David Szondy may 17, New Atlas, 17 May 2026
  • Since entering service in 2000, the US military and NATO allies have relied heavily on the AN/PVS-14 monocular system as their primary night vision device, and its significance can’t be overstated.
    — David Szondy may 17, New Atlas, 17 May 2026

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