Example sentences for: eyeglasses

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

  • The NYT notes that for cost containment reasons, managed care companies nationwide are starting to cut some of the generous benefits--such as low- or no-cost prescriptions and eyeglasses and no membership fees--that attracted elderly Americans on Medicare to their plans in the first place.

  • The court ruled that people whose impairments can be corrected (with medicine, eyeglasses, or the like) aren't eligible for protection from job discrimination under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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