aperture

Example Sentences

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Expanding the receiver aperture can improve results, but only up to a certain limit.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

It’s a study in negative space, each individual form offering a grainy aperture that holds our interest due to the minor similarities to and differences from the ones surrounding it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

A camera’s aperture widens during filming to capture the full spectacle.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025

A hermit crab will inspect a shell with care, running antennae and claws over its contours, before delicately lowering its rear end into the aperture.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2025

It was as though he’d been peering through a narrow lens and the aperture began to widen to take in the entire landscape in a kind of efflorescent illumination.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady