How To Use Glasses In A Sentence
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He saluted and adjusted his large round wire rimmed glasses.
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Faulkner wore jeans faded at the knees, a broad hat, and photochromic sunglasses.
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The instructor, a short, stocky, ex–Marine sergeant wearing black-rimmed glasses, navy pants, and a short-sleeved maroon shirt that had his name embroidered above the front pocket, was just what I would have expected.
Muffins and Mayhem
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He had the most disgusting rotten teeth and horn rim glasses with milk bottle lenses.
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Champagne is best served in a tall flute or tulip glasses.
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They weren't those thick horn-rimmed glasses, thank God, but they were big oval-shaped wire-rims.
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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
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She laid the table then went back and returned with two more glasses.
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His brown hair was cut short and messy, and a pair of horn-rimmed glasses balanced on his nose.
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She stood for a moment in her flat sandals, khaki shorts, a long-sleeved white silk shirt and a pair of very black wraparound sunglasses.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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The scene where she finds succour in tinted glasses when her eyesight has been shot away is masterly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The best sherry glasses are the thin, transparent ‘copitas’ which are designed especially for the job.
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As for the wine glasses, we live near dozens of restaurants, some world-class, which means their stemware is as thin as their wine lists are thick.
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I got two pairs of jeans - boot leg and skinnies - overalls, a blue skirt, a yellow top with a skull beaded on it and sunglasses for $350 which really (in my opinion) is amazing!
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So my advice is this: Keep the eight-glasses-a-day rule--not as a do-or-die goal, but simply as a tool to remind you to drink enough water to make up for any shortfall from your food.
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Heavy drinkers were those who had up to three pints of beer or six glasses of wine once a week.
The Sun
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In classes we had to make pills, suppositories, and powders, and recognize cupping and leech glasses!
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Long gone are the days of convertible cars being expensive trinkets owned by drivers with designer sunglasses and fur coats.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you have taken the test before and have previously been prescribed glasses or contact lenses, your optician may want you to take the test while wearing your glasses or contact lenses.
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The protester, wearing a white T-shirt, shorts, sunglasses and a beanie hat, showed no imminent signs of coming down.
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I then slip his glasses off before he bends them out of shape like he has before.
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The car driver was white, wore glasses and had a chubby build.
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He has a salt-and-pepper mustache, a dab of hair under his lower lip, and a glasses case poking out of his left chest pocket.
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Mr Hardman, I'm sorry, but your view of Little Lever is very different from mine. I took off my rose-coloured glasses a long time ago.
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The high pure water system is mainly used for photoelectricity industry and electronic, such as optics resin piece, glasses, precise revertex products ultrasonic cleaning water.
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So grab your sunglasses and dine al fresco this weekend!
The Sun
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Soft flecks of light winked off the frames of his gold-rimmed glasses and the heavy gold ring in his left ear.
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He was then taken into the defendants' cage on a stretcher, wearing sunglasses and covered by a green blanket.
The Sun
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A friend there tells me his image is everywhere, flogging anything from sunglasses to after-shave, underwear to sunscreen.
The Sun
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He often requires performers to play in unconventional ways or use unusual objects as instruments - in the band, players produce sounds from tuned wine glasses, tam-tams and maracas and use metal thimbles on their strings.
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An expensive chronometer would help here, but one or more well-made hourglasses will also do just fine.
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It meant participation in an expanding repertoire of domestic rituals made possible by creamware teacups and saucers, decanters, wine glasses, pickle plates, and forks of all sorts.
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The ice cubes can then be drained into glasses for drinking water as they melt.
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Shake with ice and strain into stemmed glasses.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was not a particularly good dog - he once bit the oculist who dared to lean over me and touch my face to adjust a new pair of glasses.
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Using phonics to help pupils learn to read century class needs to get out into the 'real world', roll down its glasses and defog them of media saturation if it is to have any real redeeming ...
Discourages Student Engagement
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He wore a red nose and novelty glasses for comic effect.
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A presentation was made to each by Co. John Bonham of a decanter and 6 brandy glasses on an inscribed tray.
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Though maybe that's me seeing through rose-colored glasses again.
Festival Seeks Happy Endings
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Tracy lit a fire and poured two glasses of wine and brought them over to Ryan on the couch.
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She was a prim ugly woman of forty - three, who wore glasses and had sparse hair.
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She poured two glasses of iced tea from a glass pitcher.
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In his flight suit, flight cap and dark sunglasses, he was the classic picture of a fighter pilot.
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People using graphical Web browsers who have poor eyesight or who forgot their reading glasses may be out of luck, too.
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But if (to borrow language from the mint of Gorgias86), if only the attendants will bedew us with a frequent mizzle87 of small glasses, we shall not be violently driven on by wine to drunkenness, but with sweet seduction reach the goal of sportive levity.
Symposium
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There are some cute ideas here - like glasses that keep things cold for a long time.
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At one stage he seemed to become almost as well-known for his flamboyant dress sense - the wide-brimmed hats, the peroxide hair, the big owlish glasses - as for his paintings.
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Corio slipped his sunglasses into his pocket and started unlacing his boots.
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You should not put rose-colored glasses on," says William Frey, demographer at the Brookings Institution.
More move, but not long distance
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If I were to ask you to describe your traveling companion I should in all probability learn that his features were very indistinct; he probably wore dark glasses, perhaps also a beard, a heavy coat -- an ulster, most likely -- and no doubt also a scarf wound tightly about his neck and chin.
PORNOGRAPHY
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Huong waved with both hands in Victnamese gestures that Rob translated to mean, stow the pitcher and glasses.
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She wears dark sunglasses and covers her short-cropped gray hair with an olive-green baseball-style hat.
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He is also wearing glasses that in the mirror reflect light so it appears that he cannot see his eyes.
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Usually made of plastic, the frames of these glasses practically stick to your face thanks to their shape and design.
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It invariably takes me by surprise when I enter a steamy greenhouse in winter and my glasses fog up.
Times, Sunday Times
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I fully expect someone to take a marker pen and draw on a pair of glasses and a goatee.
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But there are far too many sassy waitresses, far too much Jim Beam in clinking glasses, far too many people reckoning instead of thinking – far too much caricature instead of character, in other words.
The OLM Blog
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Clean the glasses until they shine.
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Her eyes were a dark, haunting green, and she wore thick-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses.
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A number of swarthy men in bizarre dark glasses had taken over the fishing activity.
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“Ed has a bad feeling about this one, boys and girls,” he announced, leaning back in the leather chair at the head of the conference table, peering professorially over his half glasses.
The Girls He Adored
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Dark sunglasses graced her face as her black duster jacket swirled in the wind.
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They held champagne glasses and leaned together, talking in confidential whispers.
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LondonThere aren't many clubs that secure you a quid off the door fee if you're wearing glasses, but Proud's new nerd-fest Geek Out! will willingly let you in cheap if you rock up sporting your nattiest frames.
Clubs picks of the week
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Pasita is a sweet alcohol served in shot glasses with a piece of cheese and a raisin on a toothpick.
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At the scene of her first fender-bender -- in Altadena -- she emerged from her little coupe with dark glasses, chignon and wide-brimmed hat all firmly in place.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Selling Mother's Louis Vuittons on eBay
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From these places emerged the "beatniks", typically dressed in shabby clothes, sporting a beard and wearing sunglasses at all hours.
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They all had the big glasses on looking like some kind of tootsie roll owl fan club and it was interesting to watch older men and woman staring at them and thinking "what's up with those freaks that looked like they just jumped out of an aerobics video from the 80s?
Steven Nereo: The Straight Nope: Big Glasses
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After a while their mother was back, holding a tray of glasses that fizzed.
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Otherwise, a pair of aviator sunglasses and a headscarf should suffice.
Times, Sunday Times
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I love summer very much. In summer, it's hot, and sometimes it's rainy. People wear T-shirts, shorts and sunglasses. Girls love to wear dresses and skirts.
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The teacher donned his cap and sunglasses, turned off the tape recorder, and dropped the gun into the plastic shopping bag.
OUTCAST
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Please put on your sunglasses to avoid the glare.
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Flanked by a bodyguard and disguised in a hat, mask and glasses, he spoke through a modulator that led Washington Post columnist David Ignatius to liken his voice to Darth Vader's.
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Place a few sliced strawberries into small sundae glasses; top with the syllabub mixture then the remaining sliced strawberries and mint.
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He walked over to me, took off my glasses and gently tapped my forehead just above the bridge of my nose.
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Instead of hard spirits he was going to be downing shot glasses full of beer.
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Pour the mixture into glasses or metal jelly moulds and put in the fridge overnight to set.
Times, Sunday Times
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I didn't encounter Nutella again for a decade. 1996 is remembered both as the year I left home and the year Ferrero brought out The Simpsons collectable Nutella glasses.
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But hearing himself forespoken so pleasantly, he came to a stand and peered at them through his gold-rimmed glasses.
News from the Duchy
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The woman with the walker, obviously the mother, fusses a bit with the walker, unsure whether to lean on it or push it over in the direction of one of the daughters, the one who is now folding away her sunglasses as she speaks.
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He wore pale flannels, a blue T-shirt with a button-up neck (quite similar to the one I was wearing) and a pair of flashy sunglasses.
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Mr. Roberts was very bald, very round, had very thick glasses, and looked very hungry.
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She zipped her jeans in a fierce movement, took dark glasses, cigarettes, keys, shoes.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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After dinner, Roger appeared in military fatigues, complete with hat, sunglasses, jackboots, and swagger stick.
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All were given standard sizes of wine and spirit glasses.
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Look at the world through rose-coloured glasses.
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I like being this girl, at least visually -- for in my thrift store trench coat, short hair and glasses -- Bic pen notwithstanding, I must look far artsier - far cooler - than you and I know I am.
Evolver Diary Entry
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The idea of glasses being a fashion item has been slow to catch on.
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Regardless of your taste in music, spangled shirts, four inch collars, glitzy sunglasses and platform shoes are in.
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The chaps from the University of Rutland at Belvoir push their glasses up their noses.
Liveblogging The Rotten State of Britain quiz draw
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Ma Dubois is in her late seventies: old and wrinkled with a blue frock, a Brillo pad of wiry grey hair and a pair of thick horn-rimmed glasses.
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A personal assistant has to wait by the door and have the sunglasses and the shoes ready.
The Sun
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A few metres along, the group of young Spanish mothers are putting on clothes, shaking out sarongs, and collecting sunglasses and children.
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In keeping with tradition, tourists were genuinely treated as honored guests and pressed by locals to accept thick slices of home baked bread, the crusts constellated with sesame seeds and fragrant anise, then roasted bell peppers, black kalamata olives, white wine and cloudy, iced glasses of ouzo.
The Alluring Remoteness of Karpathos
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Chongqing Foreign Trade Limited Company - is a specialized company operating various glasses.
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She placed a bottle of vodka and tequila on the table with two shot glasses.
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He balanced the glasses carefully on the tray.
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She wears sunglasses and a babushka and smokes cigarettes through a long plastic filter that looks like a pipe stem.
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A sale of the business, which sells high-quality tableware including glasses, decanters and jugs, was agreed on Monday and involves the firm's management, some workers and a mystery customer of the firm.
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They were young men with horn-rimmed glasses and bow ties and even younger women with long braids, some serious and others smiling, but all appearing woefully unprepared for life on China's harsh northwestern frontier.
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I can read without glasses, but my distance vision is poor.
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Most designers featured in the exhibition have chosen to play with the image of their master himself, with his long trunk and short legs, the characteristic derby hat and pince-nez glasses.
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Those fine wine glasses are made of crystal.
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She unzipped her bag and got what she needed: her light blue tankini with stripes of different shades of blue, her sunblock, her sunglasses and her towel.
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“Okay, girls, but put on sunhats,” said Samantha Pattison, who was wearing a pink Florida Marlins cap and these huge actressy sunglasses.
THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON
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You can easily correct this condition with eyeglasses or contact lenses.
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Look at the world through rose-coloured glasses.
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You lose glasses and keys either because your brain never encoded an event or piece of information or because a cue devised to trigger your memory failed.
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Francesco, the wine director at Bibiana, is Italian and oh-so-Euro-chic in close-fitting suits and hipster glasses - custom-made by a friend in Italy, he says one night.
Restaurateur Ashok Bajaj: Potentate of the D.C. plate
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He had put the baby in the high chair, put food out on the high chair, he had poured two glasses of wine waiting for Amber to come home and was reheating a seafood lasagna they made the night before.
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They could be edited together into one, better movie, where we see more of people in flashy leather duds and sunglasses instead of stained waffle undershirts.
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A few glasses of the juice quenches thirst and satisfies hunger, said Elis.
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If you are artistic, why not purchase a set of plain white ceramic egg cups, tea cups or plain glasses which are extremely inexpensive.
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The flame in the furnace can be looked at through coloured glasses.
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But surely three glasses of draught beer in a day could not be called immoderate?
Maigret and the Loner
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Two hours and fifteen minutes into the game, upon the expiration of his seventh turn, Ted removed his glasses to wipe them slowly with the worn cotton of his flannel shirt.
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Put on a thick pair of unstylish glasses, if you have them, and run some Pomade de Einstein through your hair.
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Visit the dentist before you leave and if you wear glasses, carry a spare pair.
The Sun
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Wrap all your glasses in newspaper.
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He seems to be channeling his inner William Hurt, doing a kind of mousy performance with bad glasses that reminded me of Hurt in The Doctor or other movies of his from twenty-some years back.
German Wheat, Winter Crop
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The same, I'm told, was true as to proposals that fast-food restaurants use glasses rather than paper cups.
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Wear with wedges, big sunglasses and a shrunken denim jacket for a really chic daytime look.
Times, Sunday Times
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Part of the cornea is surgically removed and the cornea is reshaped to eliminate the need for glasses for nearsighted patients.
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I was at a ting on Saturday when a mother put on a pair of comedy / joke glasses.
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Divide between four small glasses or espresso cups and chill until set.
Times, Sunday Times
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“Ladies and gentlemen,” he began, and Phyllis and I were tapping our crystal water glasses like English handbell ringers.
Nuptial Indemnity
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Reading glasses sold over-the-counter are labeled on a scale that corresponds to the degree of magnification.
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All jetsetters need a pair of statement sunglasses.
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He made himself larger than life in multi-storey platforms and drew attention to his glasses, rather than his short-sightedness, with flamboyant eyewear.
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A Spring Branch operation was also sued in November for carrying fake Coach sunglasses that were labeled "shatterproof," but the word was misspelled.
Chron.com Chronicle
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Unfortunately, without his glasses, George literally could not distinguish a tramcar from a haystack.
THE LONELY SEA
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Manson sits in the dark with the air conditioning blasting, drinking cola and wearing sunglasses.
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He is known for his oversized sunglasses and his songs' catchy choruses.
The Sun
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Perhaps it starts with you screaming about finding your reading glasses only to be sniggeringly told by your resident sniggerer that they are perched on top of your head.
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So make sure to take a hat, sunglasses with ultra-violet protection and plenty of sunblock and high-factor suncream.
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But workers at the factory here wear safety glasses, and the equipment has automatic cutoffs to prevent workers from losing fingers.
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Nick's blond hair shone in the light, and his big blue eyes were magnified by his glasses.
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A head with rosy cheeks, tousled hair, and flashing glasses suddenly appeared before me.
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I had a slight mishap with one of the glasses.
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As the glasses clinked and the people chatted about cheeky Cabernets and perfect pinotages, representatives of the wine producers waited anxiously to be put to the test.
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If you are using your glasses to stare at the screen, she recommends an antireflection coating to cut down glare.
Times, Sunday Times
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All this in a few seconds and as suddenly as it started it finished and I leapt out of bed, grabbing my glasses and running into the hallway, more adrenalised than scared.
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Cut grease and stubborn leftover food from plates and glasses by adding a few lemon slices or a tablespoon of vinegar to soapy dishwater.
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Of medium height, fair-haired, his gray eyes magnified by glasses with steel-blue frames.
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We were both holding Graves-designed Dansk glasses, half-filled with the 2006 Clos Pegase Merlot, a wine produced at a Graves-designed winery.
Michael Graves
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Hardy removed his cloak, putting it in a box behind the seat, pulling out a pair of goggles that reminded Sasha of aviator glasses she had seen in old magazines her father once had.
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Incidentally, I've become accustomed to being regarded with withering nonplussitude, so the seductive smile of the woman with the "celebutard" sunglasses and the giant soda was a pleasant surprise:
Grappling With Change: A Farewell to Summer and a Return to Arms
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Most people can't read small print without glasses when they get on in years.
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He used a piece of tissue to clean his sunglasses.
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Ruddy-faced men, bronze-faced men, pale-faced men; young women, girls, matrons and "flappers"; caddies burdened with bags of golf clubs and pockets bulging with cunningly found balls; skillful waiters hurrying here and there with trays on which glasses of various shapes, sizes, and of diversified contents tinkled musically-such was the scene at the
The Golf Course Mystery
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Dressed in a beige cardigan sweater, corduroys and rimless glasses, he exudes a polite, professorial air.
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Okay,' he said, as he took off his glasses and peered through the eyepiece.
RESCUING ROSE
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The invention of timekeeping devices - hourglasses, water clocks, graduated tapers - made it possible for early civilized people to begin to control and standardize the units of time, and in doing so to coordinate their lives.
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‘Most of them are opting for second pair of sun glasses since they are affordable’, Bajaj vouchsafes.
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Don Shirley, an understated man with steel-frame glasses and a scraggly beard, was a kindred spirit.
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Your new glasses are very attractive.
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He came in with two glasses and a bottle of wine.
The Sun
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She is wearing a black ribbed tank top, gray shorts, sandals and brown-tinted sunglasses.
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He removed his glasses and began polishing the lenses with a white silk handkerchief.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had determined to seek elsewhere for a more social party, when the thumping of tables and gingle of glasses induced me to abide the issue.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841
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The book I ended up getting had on the cover a close-up photograph of a girl wearing big sunglasses and a scarf around her neck.
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A screw had worked loose from my glasses.
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A waiter zipped over and deposited two glasses of water and a dish of mixed nuts on their table, took their drink orders, and hurried off.
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He still had the same thin frame, balding head, slightly overlarge front teeth, and large glasses.
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He put on a large hat and glasses as a disguise and hoped no one would recognise him.
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Critics were quick to accuse Putnam of looking at the past through rose-tinted glasses, and ignoring exciting new forms of community.
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The steam from the hot drink started to fog up his glasses.
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First Lady of California Maria Shriver hit the polls in Los Angeles on Tuesday decked out in dark duds, sunglasses, knee-high boots and a cross ...
Maria Shriver Wears All Black, Cross Necklace To Vote (PHOTOS, POLL)
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But the cost of eyeglasses or contact lenses is more easily managed.
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They can be grown in small pots, or be almost packed together in boxes or seed-pans; and when near perfection they may be shaken out and have the roots washed for glasses, ferneries, and small aquaria; or they can be replanted close together in sand, and covered with green moss.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
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Sarah and I could talk about stuff that professional Moms our age talk about: The rush of being in charge; the need to wear seriously rimmed glasses, even if your eyes don't require it; and techniques for gagging and hogtying that persistent little voice in the back of our heads that suggests our ambition comes at the obvious expense of our kids.
Sarah and Me: Junior High with Sarah Palin
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Bottles for spirits and liqueurs have already been produced with distinctive finishes and a range of coloured stem glasses, vases and other glassware is under development.
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We have monocles, lorgnettes, opera glasses and other vision aids for all your needs.
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In close-up, a woman (the artist) appears, costumed in headscarf, lipstick and sunglasses.
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Has anyone seen my glasses anywhere?
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Paul: They're got swell hooch here. They even wash the glasses.
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The meal was the full monty ending up with cheese and a port of which I had several glasses.
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Starting from the top and moving down - the hottest sunglasses a girl can wear this year are over-sized, round frames also known as aviators: not only do they protect your eyes from the sun, they also make you look super retro!
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Now, virtually all the money has been used to buy North Manchester General Hospital a nephroscope, used for pancreatic surgery, together with thee pairs of specialist glasses for surgeons.
Undefined
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Strain into chilled glasses and serve each with a slice of apple.
The Sun
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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.
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‘Now, let me see,’ Jinn looked up at the directory boards and immediately one of the lead men rushed forward to set a pair of round armless glasses on Jinn's nose.
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Since the beginning of the World Cup, opticians across the city have reported increased sales of rimless-style glasses.
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With your prominent cheekbones and square jaw, you need to soften your look by avoiding glasses that are sharp and angular.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's always a good idea to bring extra pairs of glasses or lenses if you have them.
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Although I am not a fan of the huge oversized glasses commonly employed, I am happy to see the quality of the glassware has increased immensely, with clumsy, shallow glass goblets being replaced by more appropriate crystal stems.
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Gauges , Pressure Gauge, Vacuum Gauge, Automobile Gauge, Industrial Gauge, and OEM Gauges Gauges and Gauge Glasses.
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Grandfather used to misplace his glasses.
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They receive you with effusive warmth, offer you mint tea poured from a silver teapot from high into little glasses, and serve you the local dishes cooked in the traditional way.
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She went to the drinks table and he heard the clink of glasses, the liquid being poured.
DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
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After grabbing glasses of water, I began asking her questions ranging from how she balances work and family to how she became such a self-possessed businesswoman.
Natalia Brzezinski: Designer Shoshanna Talks Bikinis, Bustiers and Women Feeling Beautiful
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I can only imagine how sharp and spiffy those uniforms would be … kinda a cross between Liberace at his best and Michael Jackson … all black leathery/chromy/zippery w/lots ‘n lots of sequins … and sun glasses … mirror aviators …
Think Progress » Missouri Lawmaker’s Argument Against Repealing DADT: It Would Be A ‘Cultural Affront’ To Terrorists
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In the picture, Ford is dressed in a white turtleneck and a white velvet jacket with huge lapels, and he is wearing aviator glasses.
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Tor Edgar is a giant man peering out shyly from behind glasses bequeathed by John Lennon.
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Together we have designed tequila and beer glasses, which the village makes from local supplies of recycled glass.
Times, Sunday Times
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In complete silence, Elena Miranda and Carlos Consuegra were sipping glasses of red wine in the snack bar of the Pickwick Arms Hotel.
HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
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Nadgett put on his spectacles, and read the name attentively; then looked at the chairman over his glasses, and bowed; then took them off, and put them in their case; and then put the case in his pocket.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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Then, clutching their glasses, let the theories begin flying.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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He has a commanding presence, demanding attention and respect, and an image (glasses, suit and hat) that hasn't changed much in 30 years.
