How to Use periscope in a Sentence

periscope

noun
  • This phone's claim to fame is having two periscope camera lenses on the back.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Unique dual-periscope zoom system.
    — Paul Monckton, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Some starfish bent their arms like a periscope at a 90-degree angle.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • His periscope dropped down below the waves, never to resurface again.
    — Claire Lampen, Marie Claire, 29 Dec. 2017
  • When a gobbler is within 40 and runs his neck up like a periscope, that’s your shot.
    — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 20 Apr. 2020
  • One of the lenses should be a periscope telephoto camera — the square one.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 July 2021
  • This was mainly intended to confuse the view from a periscope.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The roof indentation mimics the one that the periscope looked through.
    — CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Pyramidal cells shoot one thick dendrite up to the brain’s surface, like a periscope.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2018
  • Here are takeaways from the spring sales — and a periscope look ahead at the biggest trends emerging in the art market.
    — Zachary Small, New York Times, 19 May 2024
  • Perched atop the tripod was a metal device like a submarine periscope.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The rectangular lens at the bottom is a periscope zoom camera.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2022
  • An effort was made to rig makeshift sails on a periscope to reach shore before blowing up the vessel, but there was dead calm.
    — CBS News, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The scoot sports periscope-type front suspension, paired with adjustable straight-barrel damping to the rear.
    — New Atlas, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Even the rim was wiped, in careful delicate circles, with a special tool on the end of a pole that looked like a periscope.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The periscope disappeared, and four hours later the attack started.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The mirrors on the inside serve as a periscope, aligning the camera's view with the back of the control panel.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2022
  • For night missions, the driver can switch the central periscope to IR vision.
    — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 18 June 2018
  • While one man fired a machine gun through a hole, another used a short periscope to determine where the rounds were hitting.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Nikola Jokić is a time-bending honey drip with periscope vision.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The Pixel 6 Pro’s third sensor is of the periscope variety, the leak says.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 May 2021
  • For protection, though, the soldier faced a solid metal wall and had to use a periscope or telescope to see outside the tree.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
  • The front windshield has a border that narrows your field of view, like looking through a submarine periscope, and takes some time to get used to.
    — Jesus R. Garcia, Houston Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2026
  • To bring the image into the lens, the phone has a prism to reflect light into the lens at an angle, like a submarine's periscope.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2020
  • There is a significant camera bump on the back—the four cameras include a 10x zoom periscope lens.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 8 May 2021
  • One unique Ultra feature might be a periscope lens to improve the zoom experience on iPhone.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The periscope cam comes out of the top of Astro and allows Astro to extend its camera view to higher places.
    — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Again, rumors say the iPhone 15 Ultra will be the first iPhone to feature a periscope zoom lens.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Pu expects Lante Optics to supply the periscope lenses that Apple will use next year.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Designed for tiny home company Baumbau, the Bert looks like a periscope peeking through the forest.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 24 June 2019

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