How to Use magnifier in a Sentence

magnifier

noun
  • In the proper mount, these magnifiers can be flipped to the side or removed when not needed.
    Chris Mudgett, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2020
  • This screen magnifier will take the movie from his phone screen to a larger, 14-inch screen that fits right on his tray table.
    Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Snap off the bead, and the result is a spherical magnifier.
    WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Trump is a promoter and a magnifier of the forces that led to the victory of the Brexit side in the referendum.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 5 June 2019
  • The sizes of the tablets vary, but all are crammed with tiny symbols that require a lighted magnifier to decipher.
    Mahan Kalpa, National Geographic, 11 Mar. 2016
  • This custom blanket is the perfect gift to go with the phone screen magnifier (see below).
    Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2023
  • This screen magnifier is designed to take the image from your phone's screen and magnify it by three or four times.
    Charles Dryer and Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 7 July 2022
  • Because the meteors move so fast across such a large area, don't bother using any kind of magnifier to see them.
    Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2021
  • More niche apps include a screen magnifier and GIF creator.
    Sascha Segan, PCMAG, 2 June 2022
  • The three panel design and five-times magnifier provides a closer, more holistic, and detailed look at all sides of your face.
    Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
  • Adults are one-fiftieth of an inch long so typically most people will need a magnifier to see them.
    OregonLive.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • This set comes complete with a compass, working whistle, magnifier, map, binoculars, badges, and, of course, pretend treats for the rescue pups.
    Samantha McIntyre, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
  • While beard oils keep your hairs soft on a daily basis—like a moisturizer does for your skin—a hot oil treatment acts as a magnifier of this process—more like a deep-penetrating serum.
    Adam Hurly, GQ, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The one map of the entire route requires a magnifier to read the river names, and locations other than major communities are missing.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2021
  • In response, accessory-makers offered up all kinds of crazy add-ons, from booklight-like gadgets that shone light onto the screen to bulky screen magnifiers with bulbs and batteries in them.
    Brendan Nystedt, Wired, 10 June 2020
  • Want to assign a different function to the button, like your flashlight, magnifier or camera?
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The emissions crisis is indeed either a lens or a magnifier for everything major issue in the United States.
    Amy Westervelt, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
  • Text selection borrows an iOS feature with a new text magnifier.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The artwork is then inspected under normal white light – often with the aid of a magnifier – to determine the surface characteristics of the artist’s technique.
    Gerard De Kamper, Quartz Africa, 23 Oct. 2019
  • So the gravitational fields of galaxy clusters bend light, acting like a magnifier of the galaxies behind them.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 June 2019
  • Many of the features to help people with vision impairment use their computers have been around for years—Narrator, screen magnifier, text size, speech recognition, and high contrast themes.
    Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 7 June 2022
  • In this manner, the Hubble Space Telescope exploits a natural cosmic magnifier.
    Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Penn often wore a headband magnifier when doing precision work.
    Lesley M. M. Blume, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Nail fold capillary microscopy involves a healthcare provider examining the base of your fingernails under a magnifier.
    Sarah Fielding, Health, 3 July 2023
  • Contra Loma reservoir to get a new perspective on nature through telescopes, binoculars, magnifiers and microscopes.
    Kathy Bennett, The Mercury News, 17 May 2017
  • Labels are impossible to read without glasses or a magnifier.
    Torie Bosch, STAT, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Better lighting, stronger reading glasses and perhaps a low-power magnifier may be enough to return a patient with moderate visual loss to reading and other activities.
    Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • If interest and time permits, citizen scientists can take a cup or bulb pipette to sample the mosquito larvae and proceed with identification, using the key in the Mosquito Habitat Mapper and a clip-on magnifier.
    Guest, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2019
  • Sunglasses, smoked glass, unfiltered telescopes or magnifiers, and polarizing filters are unsafe.
    Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Gravitational lens--a natural magnifier--helps ALMA see much deeper into space.
    Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2013

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