spectacles

How To Use spectacles In A Sentence

• Gladiatorial combats, wild beast hunts, and public executions were important spectacles presented not only in Rome but throughout the Roman Empire.
• In one appearance, after the first bout of bombing, he was wearing uncharacteristic horn-rimmed spectacles.
• In a manuscript written in 1299 by Pissazzo, the author says: "I find myself so pressed by age that I can neither read nor write without those glasses they call spectacles, lately invented, to the great advantage of poor old men when their sight grows weak. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
• Over time, companies competed with one another in presenting ‘grand’ spectacles.
• It turned out to be a cheap pair of spectacles with one red lens and one blue lens.
• My father swore by Kodachrome, taking off his thick-rimmed Philip Larkin spectacles to peer myopically through viewfinders. Brownie Points
• Their attempt to soften the electorate's impression of her as a scientific cold fish is one of the few amusing spectacles in a grim political landscape.
• In the lead was a tall man, about Adam's height, with a head full of graying brown hair and a pair of intelligent-looking spectacles.
• Up until 10 o'clock, Audrey and I enjoyed sitting and watching the spectacles, drumming our fingers to the impeccable music, and chit-chatting about absolutely useless girl talk.
• Deliciously charming or incredibly irritating, depending on your point of view, he is always ready with smooth-tongued flattery, eyes innocently beaming behind his spectacles.