Example sentences for: telescope

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

  • In Canada’s largest museum, there are views of the heavens through a huge refracting telescope, do-it-yourself demonstrations of balance and optics, and a plastic bubble with live chicks hatching in front of your eyes.

  • A bonus on clear days is a view south, with the long-range telescope, of Mount Baker across the American border in the state of Washington.

  • Arecibo Observatory has the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world; 1,000 ft (305 m) in diameter, it has been silently scanning the universe, making maps of distant solar systems, and listening for messages from other planets since 1960.

  • 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.

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


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