bifocal

Example Sentences

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Ms. Rosenberg is easily identifiable thanks to a binocular contraption she straps around her head, which is attached to bifocal lenses that allow her to quickly turn between the judge’s magnified expression and her sketches.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2023

To train a bifocal vision on both the thing and its shadow is an act of respect that begins to undo fear of the unknown.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

Among Donald Hall’s poetic abilities is a kind of bifocal perspective where he lets a detail’s richness expand in meaning and also, simultaneously, keeps it in a broad and long perspective.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2018

As early as 1923, the US government was investigating a scam to fix prices of the nation’s best-selling Kryptok bifocal lenses.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2018

She peered down at him through bifocal glasses and handed him a hard plastic debit card.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai