Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for telescope. Search instead for teleshops.
Definitions

telescope

[tel-uh-skohp] / ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp /




Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Miles Palmer, director of the group of friends, said the original astronomers "used scrap material and their ingenuity and they built the most amazing telescope".

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

The telescope detected the bright red dot in the very early universe, only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

Webb is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched into space.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

By then, he said, he will have a telescope.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

But I can put a telescope out there and take pictures of planets to send to you.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

She described a Concord hotel as serving “Walden water, aesthetic tea” and “Orphic acorns by the peck,” and offering telescopes for “the gifted eyes which desire to watch the songs of the oversoul.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

It had an observatory and planetarium and featured custom-built domes, specialized solar-observation telescopes, and a natural science education centre.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

"I'm going to take two telescopes, some equipment and offer experiences for all ages. UK Astronomy has donated loads of solar glasses," he said.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Some had waited all afternoon in sweltering heat beneath the scant shade of umbrellas, while others, the best prepared, had set up their telescopes.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Radar pictures of Venus have been obtained, some from ground-based radar telescopes, some from the Pioneer Venus vehicle in orbit around the planet.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The distance between their world and that of geopolitics has telescoped, and teachers have struggled to assuage fears that this war might affect them all.

From New York Times Mar. 31, 2022

But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.

From BBC Jan. 26, 2022

There were two wheels at one end and a handle that telescoped out from the base at the other.

From Washington Post Nov. 18, 2018

If everything can be telescoped on to him, that would be better all round.

From The Guardian Oct. 12, 2017

The windows had inside shutters of slatted wood which telescoped into a narrow space on either side.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

For the encore, they cleared the perimeter of the stadium floor and drove around on giant, telescoping platforms, trailed by inflatable characters, like they were in a Macy's Day parade.

From BBC Sep. 25, 2025

Then we step forward — you can think of telescoping in on finer and finer timescales — we get from the billion year timescale to the hundreds of millions year timescale.

From Salon Sep. 29, 2023

And enveloping almost every single one of those tampons is a telescoping cardboard applicator.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2023

In addition to telescoping time, then, identities could actively use temporal displacement in their communication.

From Scientific American Jun. 14, 2023

Billy also had charge of a portable altar, an olive-drab attache case with telescoping legs.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut




Vocabulary lists containing telescope


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 12,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training