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 naturalist patiently showed me how to use my rental field glasses, moving my gaze from branch to branch until I found my visual prey.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2014

And she was still saying, I want to see things grazing through field glasses.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson