bifocal

Example Sentences

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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

But patients can choose lenses that correct near as well as distance vision; lenses that shift focus on near or distant objects in response to eye muscle movements; and bifocal or progressive lenses.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2017

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

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai