Example sentences for: telescope

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

  • 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."

  • It doesn't take a huge telescope or federal funding to make important discoveries--it just takes patience and luck.

  • 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.

  • The telescope program, for instance, was considered too challenging and risky for the CIA's Afghan assets; development continued through the summer, but the idea was eventually dropped.

  • The godfather of amateur cosmology: John Dobson, a monk who would tote his "Dobsonian" (a cheap, powerful telescope) to street corners and convince passers-by to stargaze.


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