Example sentences for: eyeglasses

How can you use “eyeglasses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Trade with the Portuguese — and the Dutch — launched a craze for tobacco, bread, potatoes, clocks, pantaloons, and eyeglasses, the latter very often worn as a chic symbol of intellectual superiority rather than as an aid for poor eyesight.

  • But down the Hill, deep in a basement cafeteria, the tables are Formica, the eyeglasses are thick, the ties are clip-ons, and the hair isn't quite coiffed.

  • If she weren't so spectacle-averse, Cox might have turned for help to former PTL televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, who the Globe reports has amassed an impressive collection of eyeglasses belonging to dead people.

  • Forbes' expression while McCain was hugging him recalled the scene in the novel (OK, the movie) where the savage boys requisition Piggy's eyeglasses.

  • For a film project called "Self Portrait with Homemade Clothes," Ray learned how to sew his own clothing and grind his own eyeglasses, then traveled to Switzerland to learn to make a watch from scratch.


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