How to Use monocle in a Sentence

monocle

noun
Definition of monoclenext
Synonyms for monoclenext
  • The monocle device will come in black or white, and two frames will be available at launch.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 Dec. 2021
  • To be read through a monocle and with a sinister sneer.
    — New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • John Ritchie, stands to his right, wearing shorts, a polo shirt and what appears to be a monocle.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Maybe Slider could start wearing a a monocle and draw a fake fencing scar on his cheek.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Forbes zipped up his jacket, put on his hat and leather gloves and climbed over the passenger seat to get to the driver seat behind the monocle windshield.
    — David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2017
  • The Sparks forward formed a circle with her thumb and forefinger, holding the loop over her eye like a monocle while flashing a wide smile.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
  • Donning a necktie for the debate would have been as off-brand as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders showing up sporting a top hat, monocle and spats.
    — Adam Tschorn, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
  • Brandy is something monocle-wearing dudes swirl in a snifter while reclining on a Chesterfield.
    — Sarah Baird, GQ, 24 Aug. 2017
  • With its top hat and monocle, Mallard is sort of reminiscent of season 2's Fox.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Congress is poised to pass a piece of legislation that will amount to a $1.5 trillion tax hike for Americans who don’t have trust funds, silver spoons or monocles.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 19 Dec. 2017
  • One of my favorite photos of my grandfather shows him at the race track wearing a black tuxedo and top hat, his trademark monocle on his nose, buttery leather gloves clasped in his hand.
    — András Szántó, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2018
  • Firstly, there was this brilliant snap of Tatum apparently asleep, with the beginnings of his brand new face, including a monocle drawn around one of his eyes.
    — Amy MacKelden, Marie Claire, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The villainous Penguin fights the Batman wearing a monocle.
    — Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Karl had a beard and a monocle, double-breasted suits, and then in his close friend the limpid-eyed, elegant, and aristocratic Jacques de Bascher a man whom Proust himself could have fallen for.
    — Kennedy Fraser, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
  • The simple red brick wall behind the stage became a staple of the comedy-club aesthetic, as did the dingy bathrooms and the tight, dark space at the back where Mr. Friedman often sat, peering at the run of show through his trademark monocle.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Nabokov started to seem less like a lovable, bumbling Professor Pnin and more like a pitiless White Russian with a monocle and an ebony cigarette holder.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
  • This time, the puppet — a remarkable monocle-wearing crow — is a single character, on the scene to investigate a murder.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 21 May 2022
  • Unlike the current night-vision goggles, a monocle-like device that shows a fuzzy green picture at night, the new goggles are designed like binoculars and are wirelessly linked to the sight on a soldier’s weapon.
    — Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 9 May 2018
  • There were several volumes of them, each bound between homemade cardboard covers, each with a cutout of a twit regarding a butterfly through a monocle pasted on the front.
    — Bruce McCall, Town & Country, 22 July 2013
  • Mr. Peanut — the top hat-wearing, monocle-sporting legume that has been the face of Planters for nearly a century — will speak for the first time in animated advertisements that will hit Facebook this Tuesday.
    — Lewis Wallace, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2010
  • Among the other items represented in the iOS 11.1 update: Chinese takeout, curling, mermaid, rock climbing, dinosaur, and an emoji face with monocle.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The Penguin is one of the most famous members of the Batman Rogues Gallery, typically recognizable by his top hat, monocle, and wide variety of deadly umbrellas.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Deb Amlen is putting the finishing touches on her (adjusts monocle, takes momentous pause) Smithsonian presentation, which takes place on March 5.
    — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Other new emojis include vomiting face, face with monocle, fairy, elf, person doing yoga, Chinese takeout container, T-Rex and flying saucer.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Monocle views the world as a single, utopian marketplace, linked by digital technology and first-class air travel, bestridden by compelling brands and their executives.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Republic, 27 June 2017
  • The watchability of one of the hearings immediately soared when a protester dressed as Rich Uncle Pennybags — complete with top hat, monocle and mustache — sat in directly behind Smith.
    — Ben Popken, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Commercial records were set, monocles popped out, and Twenty One Pilots emerged from the Blurryface cycle improbable, yet unquestioned, superstars.
    — Chris Payne, Billboard, 11 July 2018
  • Whenever Smith spoke, Monopoly Man nodded approvingly, smoothing his mustache and adjusting his monocle.
    — Ben Popken, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2017

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