Examples of hand lens in a Sentence
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Maidment’s graduate student, Joe Bonsor, takes note on his clipboard then brings a piece of rock close to his face and squints at it through a hand lens.
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Laura Poppick, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2019
Holding a hand lens to its bloom, Knapp showed me how this DYC was not a single blossom but a bouquet.
—Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
There were veins to count and stubble to inspect under hand lens.
—Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
Wearing a face mask and latex gloves, Clancy examined what was inside each packet, either with a hand lens or under a microscope.
—Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 15 July 2021
Culex pipiens —and take a look at it under a microscope or a powerful hand lens.
—Daisy Alioto, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2020
Occasionally, one of them would cradle it in one palm and bring a hand lens to it with the other, inspecting the carnivorous plant that was their bounty.
—Marion Renault, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2019
The city’s old concrete yields everything from tiny specimens demanding close inspection with a hand lens to a gigantic cliff fern almost 6 feet across.
—Irene Wanner, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
Using a combination of powerful microscopes, hand lenses, and 3D reconstructions, the researchers looked for tell-tale signs of deliberate cutting on the cow skull.
—Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 19 Apr. 2018
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Laura Poppick, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2019
Holding a hand lens to its bloom, Knapp showed me how this DYC was not a single blossom but a bouquet.
—Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
There were veins to count and stubble to inspect under hand lens.
—Marion Renault, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
Wearing a face mask and latex gloves, Clancy examined what was inside each packet, either with a hand lens or under a microscope.
—Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 15 July 2021
Culex pipiens —and take a look at it under a microscope or a powerful hand lens.
—Daisy Alioto, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2020
Occasionally, one of them would cradle it in one palm and bring a hand lens to it with the other, inspecting the carnivorous plant that was their bounty.
—Marion Renault, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2019
The city’s old concrete yields everything from tiny specimens demanding close inspection with a hand lens to a gigantic cliff fern almost 6 feet across.
—Irene Wanner, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
Using a combination of powerful microscopes, hand lenses, and 3D reconstructions, the researchers looked for tell-tale signs of deliberate cutting on the cow skull.
—Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 19 Apr. 2018
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“Hand lens.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hand%20lens. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
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