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Six example sentences with microscope, each labelled with its topic.
The pathologist put the slide under a microscope and found the cluster of odd cells within a minute.
Medicine
A drop of pond water under the microscope turns out to hold hundreds of creatures swimming in every direction.
Science
Fitting a camera to a microscope lets a hobbyist record a snowflake at a scale the naked eye cannot reach.
Photography
Leeuwenhoek ground his own lenses for a microscope and became the first person to watch tiny creatures swim in rainwater.
History
The conservator studied the varnish under a microscope and found three layers, the oldest cracked into a fine net.
Art
Volunteers count plastic fibers under a microscope, one liter of river water at a time, and the tallies keep rising.
Environment
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