reading glasses

Example Sentences

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She pauses, fiddling with her red-framed reading glasses.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

That means you don’t have to tote your reading glasses around all the time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

She wears reading glasses, 1.5 strength — a tidbit that didn’t make it into my story but gave me a certain middle age presbyopic nerd thrill.

From New York Times • May 18, 2024

Bochy wasn’t wearing his reading glasses but said the boy looked like him.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2023

I go upstairs, through the old building and its room full of lamp-lit tables and people softly turning pages or asking hushed research questions, reading glasses on noses.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari