How to Use prism in a Sentence

prism

noun
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  • And the ice cubes are a very nifty trapezoidal prism shape.
    — Zach Epstein, BGR, 28 Aug. 2021
  • But there will be a point at which he will be viewed through the prism of the team’s record.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The prism that is forever linked to Dark Side of the Moon?
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Viewing it through an 11-game prism won’t cut it for him.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2022
  • It’s the life of Saudi Arabia through the prism of the lead character.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
  • And celebrity is the prism through which most of the viewing public is seeing the … well, star of the show.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • No such approval was granted for either the prism or the tablet.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Through this prism, so many of the surrounding events started to make sense to them.
    — Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 17 June 2022
  • My goal with this book was to tell a life story through the prism of stuttering.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
  • And second, the Dolphins built the present roster looking at the team from the prism of a two-year window.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
  • View this in the prism of which quarterback does the most to help his team win as both teams chase playoff berths.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2022
  • That’s a camera bent at 90 degrees inside the phone, using a prism and a longer lens to move the light to the sensor.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 July 2022
  • That trouble reflects long-term trends as seen through the prism of the pandemic.
    — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Predictably, each side saw dirtiness in the play through its own prism.
    — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Strayhorne views the world through the prism of his 2 ½-year-old daughter, Aunzali.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Among his works is the 30-foot acrylic prism in the Federal Courthouse downtown.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • But Europeans do not view China’s rise through the same prism as the United States.
    — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Looked at through the prism of Germany, war is the destruction of that which economic growth builds.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Wilde, 38, sees the world through a post-feminist prism, and the women in her films drive action on their own, without the help of men.
    — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
  • If all of this comes across as overly critical of a first-place team, well, that’s because of the prism through which this team is viewed.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
  • Viewed through the prism of wringing out the most of every last great Steph Curry season, this year was squandered.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Some were made with prisms that fan out the starlight, creating what's known as stellar spectra.
    — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • The first choice that comes to mind: the Brazilian Amazon, where the bass are massive, and as colorful as light passing through a prism.
    — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The major league strike zone is a three-dimensional prism above the plate that runs from the midpoint between the shoulders and top of the pants to the bottom of the kneecaps.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Or the surprise of encountering a rainbow from the prism that hangs in your window.
    — Cyndie Spiegel, SELF, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Those looking at the schedule through the prism of 2021 also should take note of a similar impact.
    — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Details do more for him in painting the picture than adhering to a prism of reason.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Fitzpatrick read the effect on Tagovailoa from the outside, but through the prism of a 17-year veteran.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2022
  • To call Russia a colonial empire is to challenge decades of scholarship that has shied away from viewing Russia’s history through a colonial prism.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 9 June 2024
  • Passing light through a prism or over a grating—a piece of glass or metal that has a series of very fine parallel grooves in it—breaks up light into many individual colors.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 July 2024

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