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How to use spectacles in a sentence

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For, like ancient Rome and its gladiators, today's cities play host to colourful spectacles, marches, processions et al.
Behind the spectacles and deep thinking there is a forceful man, who is tough to argue with.
An attempt to increase the magnifying power would inevitably lead to a reduction of the field of vision and to an unhandiness of such spectacles.
The dance ritual of the male and female during courtship and pair-bonding is one of the most entertaining spectacles in the world of birds.
She shakily put her cup back on its blue china saucer and looked through her owl-like spectacles at Hannah.
Problems were experienced by people who wore spectacles, particularly varifocal or bifocal lenses.
In some of the caves, flamenco singing and dancing spectacles, known as zambras, are staged.
His grating voice, frameless spectacles, faded suits and short, stringy hair all broke with the conformist protest style.
Her spectacles caught the light from somewhere and glimmered under the straight blonde of her hair.
My spectacles picked up a few drops of water and turned the street lamps into sparkling sodium stars.
A handful of other artists staged theatrical public spectacles, performances grounded in the sociologies of place and personality.
Everywhere amazing spectacles were being performed, as crowds gathered and applauded the snake charmers, coal-walkers, and fire-eaters.
Instead, they were grand spectacles with thousands of spectators present to watch the coronations.
Like most people past their mid forties, he uses spectacles to read and write.
I look up and see he is wearing rather academic spectacles, which makes him look slightly less threatening.
These ballets were often elaborate spectacles, intended to display the status of the nobility or monarchs who had commissioned them.
The fourth member of the group was chubby with a shaven head, a blue jumper and wearing spectacles.
The countryman went from ruggedly unsophisticated to casually erudite in one quick addition of something so simplistic as a pair of spectacles.
He dusted the snowflakes out of his hair and slipped on his pair of thick-framed spectacles and took the folder from Margaret's hands.
He looked up and the glass of his spectacles caught the light, sending a bright glare into Sandra's eyes.
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Then he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and looked carefully at the picnickers.
Looping the loop, and other kinds of what are now called 'aerobatics', were habitually disparaged as idle spectacles.
He had red hair planted in his head like couch grass, and on his nose he wore a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles.
I am a timid youth, ansemic, wear spectacles, and am frightened by a zep raid!
She could not see them, for the spectacles dazzled her, but she remembered exactly how they looked.
There at the corner, ear trumpet adjusted, and spectacles glistening, stood Debby Beasley.
Mr. Tutt readjusted his spectacles and slowly selected a stogy from the bundle in the dusty old cigar box.
Bailey appeared to wilt under her gaze as if the spectacles were twin suns.
All their spectacles that I have seen were crystal set in horn, tortoise-shell, or ivory.
Yes, said the man with the spectacles, warmed-over pastry is good for nothing, hum!
He took off his spectacles, as if the better to contemplate the face of his eulogist.
It was just the other way, because at that time there were no spectacles or false teeth.
The costume of the alpinist, his spectacles, his accent, were quite enough to confound him in their minds with those agents.
On leaving the garden, we mount our green spectacles, hoist our umbrella, and resolutely set our face homeward and Romeward.
If it is a question of a presbyope, let him look with his spectacles, and note the nearest domino seen distinctly.
Even the taxgatherer, who was stout, and wore spectacles and a broadbrimmed hat, had the taxes handed through the grating.
She had a stick and a nutcracker face and a pair of large iron bowed spectacles.
The big spectacles over his eyes quite altered his froglike countenance and gave him a learned and impressive look.
As the professor was lank, tow-haired and so near-sighted, that he peered at his pupils through spectacles, no one ever had.
Then came a rook, in black, like a minister, with spectacles and white cravat.
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