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• The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.From the entry fine
• The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.From the entry trouble
• The heat of sunlight at the focus of a magnifying glass can easily set dry leaves on fire.From the entry focus
• The image was magnified by a factor of eight.From the entry magnified
• "Imagine your worst impression of what it would be like and then magnify that.2018, Jeanne Marie Laskas, To Obama, With love, joy, hate and despair, →ISBN, page 226. From the entry sausage making
• China's huge scale magnified the effects of apocalypticism in the Taipeng Rebellion.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 897. From the entry apocalypticism
• Eldon Tyrell are magnified by large lenses in his glasses, giving him a lizardly look.2009, James W. Roman, Bigger Than Blockbusters: Movies that Defined America, page 258. From the entry lizardly
• Tears trapped behind the lenses of her Harry Potter glasses magnified the fear in her eyes.2002, Tami Hoag, Dark Horse, page 193. From the entry Harry Potter glasses
• Suffice it to say that the recourse to nuclear energy magnifies the problems of fossilism.1998, David Bell, Roger Keil, Political Ecology: Global and Local, page 41. From the entry fossilism
• A magnified view of a small piece of the apeirogon looks like a straight line.1994, Steven Schwartzman, The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of Mathematical Terms Used in English, Washington, D.C.…. From the entry apeirogon
• Magnify your eye-Q with these makeup tips and tricks that’ll make your eyes look out-of-sight!1986 September, Teen, volume 30, number 9, page 86. From the entry Eye-Q
• Then he carefully examined the trunk, going over it with a magnifying glass.1911, Bram Stoker, “The Chest Opened”, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], →OCLC, page 114. From the entry flawless
• "That magnifying glass sure does make my eye look big!"2015, Barbara E. Moss, The Two Brothers Detective Agency. From the entry googly-eyed
• For to 'radicalize' is to exponentialize according to cognitive criteria, and thus not to dissolve but indeed to magnify.2009, Paul D. Janz, The Command of Grace: A New Theological Apologetics, page 72. From the entry exponentialize
• I got out my magnifying glass.2015, Jim "Sunny" Edwards, A Footprint in the Sand: The Fishing Edge, Fulton Books, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry chew
• As he magnifies and unmagnifies the spectacle, picking up and putting down his glasses, he is disoriented by alternate, coexisting versions of the actress.2015, Hannah Freed-Thall, Spoiled Distinctions, page 72. From the entry unmagnify
• He had also a collection of stapelias and other small prickly plants; some of them were almost invisible without a magnifying glass, but most interesting.2010, Marianne North, Abundant Beauty: The Adventurous Travels of Marianne North, Botanical Artist, page 204. From the entry stapelia
• Using special guidelines outlined within this introduction, filmists relax, focus, and afterward discuss with others their reactions to magnify the value of film viewing.2009, Mary Banks Gregerson, The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching, page 2. From the entry filmist
• The palmist peers at it with a magnifying glass, and analyses the scrabbly lines as if they were a map of buried treasure.2005, Vikas Swarup, Q and A, page 83. From the entry scrabbly
• Indeed, it arguably magnified it, as unidentifiedness is a close cousin. of the awful randomness—associated with terrorists and criminal maniacs—that many people uniquely fear.2000, Lisa Heinzerling, “The Rights of Statistical People”, in Robin West, editor, Rights (The International Library of Essays in Law &…. From the entry unidentifiedness
• Rouaud's narration is an exercise in hyperawareness; it is a vision of a world magnified in the dewdrops of an extreme sensibility.1998 January 9, Richard Bernstein, “'The World More or Less': A Sad Life, Through Thick Glasses, Wittily”, in The New York Times. From the entry hyperawareness
• There must be something in the appeal of the Gothic that minifies one group of values leaving other considerations untouched, or actually magnifying them.1942, Lloyd C. Douglas, “Green Light”, in Inc., Pocket Books, page 170. From the entry minify
• Further, walkways and guardrails are also constructed along the bikeway that has been planned by the county government in order to magnify the sightseeing momentum for Chutien Township.(Can we date this quote?), “優質工程”, in Irrigation Agency, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2022. From the entry bikeway
• The region inside the photon sphere has a diameter of 1.5× Schwarzschild diameter D(s), but due to the curvature, this region gets magnified to 2.6× D(s).2022, Wouter Schmitz, Understanding Relativity, Springer, page 277. From the entry photon sphere
• These can include strategies like squeezing a koosh ball instead of knuckle-cracking, pulling in the chin to avoid chronic head-nodding or getting rid of magnifying mirrors to prevent face-picking.2017 September 14, Kate Murphy, “Are You a Hair-Twirler, Nail-Biter or Knuckle-Cracker?”, in The New York Times. From the entry koosh ball
• We are swollen up like an overfed slug, our breath stinks, the tiniest irritant is magnified ten thousand times, and we cry at the drop of a hat.2014, Becky Rutledge, Miss Becky's Charm School, Citadel Press, →ISBN. From the entry at the drop of a hat
• It was clear that there was a claque of enthusiasts near the platform, whose Vivas! were caught be the microphones and magnified into a simulacrum of popular enthusiasm.2012, Theodore Dalrymple, The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World. From the entry claque
• The acts of goodness, I call bonificative, bonifiable, and bonifying, while those of greatness are magnificative, magnifiable, and magnifying, and so on for the other aforesaid dignities.2010, Fiona Somerset, Nicholas Watson, The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity, The Pennsylvania State University…. From the entry bonifiable
• We desperately need starter materials such as stamps, albums, perforation gauges, hinges or mounts, and magnifying glasses — any materials that a novice collector requires to get started.2001, The American Philatelist, volume 115, page 686. From the entry perforation gauge
• On the other hand, these Orderites seldom miss an opportunity to magnify caricatures of African Americans either in featured crime (males) or welfare (females) media series.1996, Willa Mae Hemmons, Black Women in the New World Order: Social Justice and the African American Female, Greenwood Publishing Group…. From the entry orderite
• His various "crescographs," or growth recorders, have steadily increased in sensitiveness, until in the latest, the magnetic crescograph, we have an instrument which magnifies the movement ten million times.1936, J.C. Squire, The London Mercury, volume 33, page 511. From the entry crescograph
• The cut in Fig 6 exhibits the magnified region of the chromatogram indicating the 2,5-DMHQ (signal no.1) and the monoacetate of 2,5-DMHQ (no.2), which is formed during the fungal treatment.2015 July 6, “Potential of Wood-Rotting Fungi to Attack Polystyrene Sulfonate and Its Depolymerisation by Gloeophyllum trabeum via…. From the entry monoacetate
• You may be able to tell if your child is a supertaster by taking a look at the back portion of his tongue with a flashlight and a magnifying glass.2011, Elizabeth Pantley, The No-Cry Picky Eater Solution: Gentle Ways to Encourage Your Child to Eat—and Eat Healthy, McGraw Hill…. From the entry supertaster
• The magnetic crescograph, invented by the famed Indian botanist, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, for this purpose, seems capable of magnifying the highest powers of the microscope a hundred thousand times.1920, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, “Are plant life and animal life essentially the same?”, in Current Opinion, volume 69, page 828. From the entry crescograph

Meaning of magnify

1. verb To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
2. verb To make (something) larger or more important.
3. verb To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.

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Questions about magnify in a sentence

How do you use magnify in a sentence?

Magnify is used as a verb. For example: “The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.”

What is a short sentence with magnify?

“I got out my magnifying glass.”

What does magnify mean?

Magnify means to praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).