Example sentences for: telescope

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

  • For example, in 1633, the Vatican ordered Galileo to deny the evidence of his own eyes, as assisted by the new telescope he had designed, and stop teaching that God’s earth was only one of many planets in orbit around the sun.

  • Lewis describes the civil rights elite as bourgeois folks who enjoyed fund-raisers but had never known the billy club and "tended to look down through a telescope at the little people."

  • His follower, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), built a telescope and used it to piss in the soup even more.

  • However, Gottlob's figgin' work showed that this argument was invalid, since Leibniz worked in the morning, Newton worked in the evening, and it was really Galileo that discovered the calculus while looking at Jupiter, not Venus, through his telescope.

  • High above the temple stands a government rest house built by the Dutch and turned into a palace by the late President Sukarno, who they say kept a telescope trained on the women’s pool.


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