granny glasses

Example Sentences

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"In some ways, you stick a wig and a beard on someone, little round granny glasses and a white suit and everyone goes, 'It's John Lennon'"

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2025

I wore one of my go-ahead-underestimate-me suits complete with purple granny glasses.

From Slate • May 28, 2022

Mr. Stanfield also brought along rose-colored granny glasses, which he described as “my soul realized in third-dimensional space.”

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2018

Photos of the future first couple from their university years — granny glasses, peacoats, shaggy hair — reinforced an image of the baby boomers ascending to power.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2016

I watch her page through slowly, then put on the granny glasses that hang around her neck and go through the drawings again, and then again.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson