How to Use periscope in a Sentence

periscope

noun
Definition of periscopenext
  • The periscope swings aft and focuses on the top of the rudder.
    — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Like the zoom in the S20 Ultra, the lens sits down into the body of the phone and sees out into the world like a periscope.
    — Popular Science, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The Pixel 6 Pro’s third sensor is of the periscope variety, the leak says.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 May 2021
  • When a gobbler is within 40 and runs his neck up like a periscope, that’s your shot.
    — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Again, rumors say the iPhone 15 Ultra will be the first iPhone to feature a periscope zoom lens.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The roof indentation mimics the one that the periscope looked through.
    — CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Some starfish bent their arms like a periscope at a 90-degree angle.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The report also provides the specs for the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s periscope camera.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 July 2022
  • One of the lenses should be a periscope telephoto camera — the square one.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 July 2021
  • The mirrors on the inside serve as a periscope, aligning the camera's view with the back of the control panel.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2022
  • For night missions, the driver can switch the central periscope to IR vision.
    — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 18 June 2018
  • His periscope dropped down below the waves, never to resurface again.
    — Claire Lampen, Marie Claire, 29 Dec. 2017
  • The light enters the hood of the periscope horizontally.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
  • It is connected to a video recorder that captures the same images seen through the No. 2 periscope and was turned on once the dive began.
    — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Even the rim was wiped, in careful delicate circles, with a special tool on the end of a pole that looked like a periscope.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Pyramidal cells shoot one thick dendrite up to the brain’s surface, like a periscope.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2018
  • An effort was made to rig makeshift sails on a periscope to reach shore before blowing up the vessel, but there was dead calm.
    — CBS News, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The periscope cam comes out of the top of Astro and allows Astro to extend its camera view to higher places.
    — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The picture posted by a State Patrol trooper (above) shows the driver didn't seem to try very hard to clear more than a periscope view through the snow.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 11 Dec. 2022
  • To bring the image into the lens, the phone has a prism to reflect light into the lens at an angle, like a submarine's periscope.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The rectangular lens at the bottom is a periscope zoom camera.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Andrei Vitaliovych peers through a handheld periscope over the top of a trench wall at a line of barren trees some 350 yards away.
    — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The week before Russia attacked, a Ukrainian soldier peered through a periscope from the bottom of his trench.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Zahar Leshushun, peering into the distance with a periscope, had followed the news all day from a trench where he is posted near the town of Zolote.
    — Lori Hinnant, Jim Heintz and Zeke Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • There is a significant camera bump on the back—the four cameras include a 10x zoom periscope lens.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 8 May 2021
  • The periscope disappeared, and four hours later the attack started.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Others say the iPhone 15 Ultra will be the only iPhone 15 model to feature a periscope lens camera.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 11 Nov. 2022
  • For protection, though, the soldier faced a solid metal wall and had to use a periscope or telescope to see outside the tree.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
  • For protection, though, the soldier faced a solid metal wall and had to use a periscope or telescope to see outside the tree.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
  • Perched atop the tripod was a metal device like a submarine periscope.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2022

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