field glasses
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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A statue of the impressively bearded Civil War general and former Secretary of War John Rawlins, field glasses in hand, surveys this narrow block-long park from its eastern end.
From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2017
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
Some of the dockers, training their field glasses on Tom Smith’s face as he led the horse back to the barn, noticed a glaring incongruity.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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