How to Use loupe in a Sentence

loupe

noun
Definition of loupenext
  • Why not simply have the home-plate ump get out his jeweler’s loupe?
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2021
  • Michael works for a magazine; Mae gazes through a loupe at a museum.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The surgeons often wear loupes mounted on eye glasses to magnify their work, which limits their field of vision to a few inches.
    — Lucette Lagnado, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2016
  • The loupe, which has 10-times magnification, can be placed over a smartphone camera lens for taking photos.
    — Kenta Ieki, idahostatesman, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Armed with jewelers’ loupes, a dozen mushroom hunters gathered at Cunningham Park in Queens on a recent Sunday morning.
    — WSJ, 31 July 2017
  • Presumably the flavors are there to complement each other, but some are smears, some are dots, some are leaves that resist fork spearing, and others are too small to even notice without a jeweler's loupe.
    — Josh Ozersky, Esquire, 22 Apr. 2013
  • The return of the magnification loupe for text selection and drag and drop functionality between apps are just two examples.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 15 July 2021
  • By contrast, this loupe from Amazon offers 10x and 20x magnifications.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 30 May 2008
  • The magnification loupe for text selection on iOS worked perfectly for years before Apple decided to replace it.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 22 June 2021
  • Studying a series of tiny frames with a loupe, a photographer or editor could identify potential hits, usually...
    — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2020
  • Neurosurgery can take many hours, which surgeons operating with magnifying loupes or microscopes often spend looking down, their necks bent.
    — Denise Grady, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Some of these features include the ability to turn off notifications entirely when gaming (as part of the Focus feature), the ability to request refunds from within an app itself, and the return of the magnification loupe for text selection.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 24 June 2021
  • But these patterns are often only distinguishable with sophisticated equipment; often, a jeweler’s loupe won’t even reveal the difference between the two.
    — Annabelle Williams, Philly.com, 7 July 2018

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