How to Use periscope in a Sentence

periscope

noun

• The periscope swings aft and focuses on the top of the rudder.
  — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2020
• Like the zoom in the S20 Ultra, the lens sits down into the body of the phone and sees out into the world like a periscope.
  — Popular Science, 18 Aug. 2020
• The Pixel 6 Pro’s third sensor is of the periscope variety, the leak says.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 May 2021
• 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
• Again, rumors say the iPhone 15 Ultra will be the first iPhone to feature a periscope zoom lens.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Dec. 2022
• The roof indentation mimics the one that the periscope looked through.
  — CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
• Some starfish bent their arms like a periscope at a 90-degree angle.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• The report also provides the specs for the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s periscope camera.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 July 2022
• One of the lenses should be a periscope telephoto camera — the square one.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 July 2021
• 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
• This phone's claim to fame is having two periscope camera lenses on the back.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024
• For night missions, the driver can switch the central periscope to IR vision.
  — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 18 June 2018
• His periscope dropped down below the waves, never to resurface again.
  — Claire Lampen, Marie Claire, 29 Dec. 2017
• The light enters the hood of the periscope horizontally.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
• It is connected to a video recorder that captures the same images seen through the No. 2 periscope and was turned on once the dive began.
  — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Pyramidal cells shoot one thick dendrite up to the brain’s surface, like a periscope.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2018
• 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 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
• The picture posted by a State Patrol trooper (above) shows the driver didn't seem to try very hard to clear more than a periscope view through the snow.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 11 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The rectangular lens at the bottom is a periscope zoom camera.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2022
• Andrei Vitaliovych peers through a handheld periscope over the top of a trench wall at a line of barren trees some 350 yards away.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2022
• The week before Russia attacked, a Ukrainian soldier peered through a periscope from the bottom of his trench.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2022
• Zahar Leshushun, peering into the distance with a periscope, had followed the news all day from a trench where he is posted near the town of Zolote.
  — Lori Hinnant, Jim Heintz and Zeke Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2022
• There is a significant camera bump on the back—the four cameras include a 10x zoom periscope lens.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 8 May 2021
• The periscope disappeared, and four hours later the attack started.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
• Others say the iPhone 15 Ultra will be the only iPhone 15 model to feature a periscope lens camera.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 11 Nov. 2022
• 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 zoom lens is kind of a weird downgrade—older Ultra models had a 10x optical zoom via a periscope lens, and this one doesn't.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024