How to Use magnify in a Sentence

magnify

verb
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  • The sound was magnified by the calm air.
  • His failures have been magnified by the success of his friends.
  • I don't want to magnify the importance of these problems.
  • The lens magnified the image 100 times.
  • Still, the Laser has one glaring fault that is magnified in the context of this elite group.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The roster was built around the two stars, with the roles of the other players designed to magnify Leonard’s and George’s strengths.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Need to magnify something, such as small text on the side of a pill bottle?
    — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 5 June 2021
  • So the question is: Can this late surge of cash help magnify Barnette’s late surge and win her the race?
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 11 May 2022
  • At the same time, the UK’s decline is magnified on London’s streets.
    — Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
  • This bad habit can magnify a range of skin issues, and can leave your skin red, flaky and parched.
    — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Rossano Ferretti has above all the talent to magnify the hair and has his feet on the ground.
    — Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • And some of the right-wing media in India magnified the attacks on the Hindus.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The eyepiece then magnifies the light and straightens out the image for the viewer.
    — Jen McCaffery, Popular Science, 21 June 2023
  • The next couple of months will magnify this dilemma for sports fans.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Minute prints, while quaint and cozy, can magnify a room’s tininess.
    — Lauren Joseph, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The curved mirror can magnify the image much like a lens, Voigt says.
    — Bysara Reardon, science.org, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Schwartz’s scheme will magnify both the strengths and weaknesses of the current Browns roster.
    — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The purpose of the group is to magnify the power of art, and potential of art, in Southeastern San Diego.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Much of Payne’s fanbase grew up with him, magnifying the sense of loss over his sudden death.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Injuries to Hill and Waddle late in the season only magnified the team’s lack of depth.
    — Daniel Oyefusi, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But on a longer cast, just a slight bit of droop will magnify into larger and larger loops.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The microscope magnifies up to 400x and has extra large knobs to help kids focus on their own.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Bsn, Parents, 15 Nov. 2023
  • This is its own kind of triumph in an EV, where the lack of a melodious engine can magnify wind and road noise.
    — Annie White, Car and Driver, 15 Dec. 2020
  • But in the playoffs, any rough patch gets magnified because the margin for error is so slim.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024
  • This device has the ability to magnify a smartphone screen by up to five times and can do so across its 18-inch screen.
    — Jenna Clark, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2023
  • In a pennant race, and even moreso in the postseason, matchups are magnified.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
  • And there are other factors that could magnify that boost.
    — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
  • And all of a sudden, one day someone gave me one of those five-time [magnifying] mirrors.
    — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
  • Galileo Galilei discovered Jupiter’s moons, and thus showed that the Earth was not the center of the universe, with a telescope that could magnify twenty times.
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, while the air near the horizon does indeed act like a lens, its actual effect is to make the sun and moon look squished, like flat ovals, not to simply magnify them.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2024

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