How To Use Bifocals In A Sentence

  • I watched him set frameless bifocals on the end of his nose.
  • With the word 'bifocals' staring him in the face, Jelinsky might well have started writing it absently. Banquets of the Black Widowers
  • Today on The Health Report, is there a prospect of being able to throw away reading glasses and bifocals?
  • For instance, the first time you don a new pair of bifocals, there is a difference in what you perceive visually and what your hand does when you go to reach for something.
  • George peered thoughtfully at her through his bifocals. THE LONELY SEA
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  • Yet Franklin also invented bifocals, the lightning rod, the Franklin stove, a flexible urinary catheter, not to mention the armonica [glass harmonica], and, with his cousin, was the first to name and to chart the Gulf Stream. July « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
  • I've got progressive bifocals, and the "bifocal" part occupies Home Theater Forum
  • She leaned her head against my shoulder, a kittenish move that would have been appropriate from an eight-year-old, and was extremely odd when performed by a woman who needed bifocals to read a menu.
  • Now he was a greying elder, spectacled in thick bifocals, wrinkled in his once handsome features, and knotted and veined in limbs.
  • Her eyes narrowed as she peered over her bifocals.
  • My bifocals work great, my false teeth are comfortable, my hearing aid is adequate, now if they just could make my mind work again. What's Right About Scopes? Not Much.
  • Through her pinched-looking bifocals the salesclerk peered at me, saying, in a voice of reproach," That scarf is pure silk, from China. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
  • We are an on-line company, run and owned by a qualified Optician , you can order all single vision on the website, but the more complicated varifocal and bifocals are done over the phone where more information is needed and greater advice offered!" explained a spokesperson. Archive 2008-03-01
  • This new refractive procedure is capable of reducing or even eliminating the need for bifocals or reading glasses for certain categories of patients.
  • Her beady eyes narrow and her caterpillar brows furrow together over the thick rims of her bifocals.
  • As for presbyopia, I'm on my second pair of what used to be called bifocals but are now called something else because they don't have a line across the lens -- continuous? Graceful Aging (or: Use What Works)
  • I had just started feeling around my bedspread for the bifocals when Jack said, ‘Looking for these?’
  • I'm a presbyope (presbyopia is a condition faced by almost everyone over the age of 40 where the ability to focus on close objects gradually vanishes) and have struggled with bifocals and progressives for more than a decade. TierneyLab
  • Scopes also help mature shooters continue in the sport longer, he said, because finding iron sights through bifocals and trifocals can be challenging.
  • I wear bifocals or reading glasses - can I still wear contact lenses?
  • Donald needs exciting and imaginative new policies, new advisors, new bifocals, the lot.
  • An effort to look through bifocals put a jaunty thrust in Lois's small chin.
  • What little control he had over his eyes was lost, and the irises hopped madly behind his thick bifocals. OUTCAST
  • For me, the progressive or no-line bifocals have worked for years because you can position your head to bring objects into sharp focus at almost any distance.
  • So our aim is to restore the ability to change the focus in older people, so that they don't need reading glasses or bifocals.
  • In 1760, Benjamin Franklin instructed a London firm to make him spectacles with two types of lenses fitted together, thus inventing bifocals.
  • The charity does not accept bifocals or varifocals. Times, Sunday Times
  • And if you wear bifocals or trifocals, keep in mind that you may have a tendency to tilt your head backwards so that you can see through the lower portion of your glasses.
  • He was a short, stout man who had long ago lost most of his hair and now had to keep his thick bifocals on a string around his neck or else he'd lose them too.
  • First, she said, you don't want bifocals, you want varifocals, or multifocals. Times, Sunday Times
  • And if you wear bifocals or trifocals, keep in mind that you may have a tendency to tilt your head backwards so that you can see through the lower portion of your glasses.
  • He was responsible for breakthroughs like lighting = electricity, and inventions like bifocals and the Franklin stove.
  • I'm totally against the idea of bifocals, since I know I will probably need them in the next few years, but screwing up my ability to do my job would not be a good idea either. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • An older lady, one of the servers, walked into the cafeteria dressed in a white apron, hairnet, and black-framed bifocals, carrying a portable radio. Show Stoppah
  • As a solution, lots of people turn to multifocal lenses, such as bifocals or varifocals. The right glasses could cut seniors’ risk of falls
  • It's scary when you have to look through the bottom part of your bifocals to shoot layups and the top part on jump shots.
  • I've got progressive bifocals, and the "bifocal" part occupies a small semi-circular region at the bottom of the lens, and I have clear vision throughout the rest of the lens for distant objects (no "sweep spot). Home Theater Forum
  • For instance, it was by trusting the bifocals of Euhemerus that Heinrich Schliemann rediscovered Troy.
  • (progressive or otherwise) wherein the "bifocal" part occupied the entire bottom half of the lens, and they swore they'd never go back to bifocals again. Home Theater Forum
  • The plastic marvel even had a sort of visor that folded out to keep the drops off Marge's thick bifocals.
  • Mom wore large bifocals with Sophia Loren frames and a pastel polyester pantsuit that stretched over her abdomen.
  • Handing the packet to her, he shut his bag, and the nurse slipped on a pair of bifocals that had been hanging around her neck by a thin chain.
  • He scratched the end of his nose and blinked behind his bifocals. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • He put on a pair of glasses with clear, thick lenses that looked like bifocals.
  • The man lifted his thick bifocals over his thinning hair and leaned back in his chair, the frame groaning under his weight. CORMORANT
  • However, other factors that put people at risk for falls include wearing bifocals, taking several medications, improper footwear, memory problems, a cluttered house, lack of stair railings and grab bars, and poorly lit environments. Dr. Caroline Cicero: As Autumn Begins, Fall Prevention Awareness Day Will Keep You Off the Ground
  • The man's wrinkly face was barely visible behind his enormous bifocals and explosive gray facial hair, and the dark silk suit he was wearing was tailored to match his furniture.
  • She had mousy brown hair with gray streaks pulled up into a tight bun, and she wore a pair of small bifocals.
  • I've had mine for 40 years and just got my first pair of bifocals. I just got glasses, will theis affect my hunting or fishing such as shooting and how do you fix this problem.
  • He stared at Laurie over his bifocals, his balding head gleaming in the afternoon sun coming through the bay window at the end of the foyer.
  • Through her pinched-looking bifocals the salesclerk peered at me, saying, in a voice of reproach," That scarf is pure silk, from China. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
  • One pastor went into the pulpit one Sunday morning wearing a pair of new bifocals.
  • First, she said, you don't want bifocals, you want varifocals, or multifocals. Times, Sunday Times

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