field glasses

Example Sentences

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Albertus W. Catlin stood on a rise in the ground with his field glasses and watched his Marines advance through the waist-high wheat toward the woods 400 yards away.

From Washington Post • May 31, 2018

Galileo’s telescopes were refractors, as are today’s binoculars and field glasses.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

I kind of pull over there, take my field glasses and peer down into the casting yard - where they make the segments - and see if can guess what they’re doing.

From Washington Times • Nov. 23, 2015

The sense of togetherness seemed as palpable as the heavy field glasses through which we watched the races.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2013

Twice, a fifth-year rakes Frederick’s field glasses and smears the lenses with excrement.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr