Sentence examples for spectacles out from inspiring English sources

Peddlers went around the countryside selling spectacles out of baskets.

The report, which is based largely on the testimony of victims, survivors, and witnesses, describes how IS made "gruesome public spectacles" out of its killings in the form of "shooting, beheading, burning alive, bulldozing, and throwing off buildings".

When the MTV Video Music Awards celebrates its 30th year (yes, you are as old as you think you are) as one of the most irreverent award spectacles out there, it will be beamed from New York City for the first time since 2009.

Overnight I was lifted out of the musty basement section where men with National Health spectacles hang out, and up on to the shiny new rack next to the checkout counter.

Economists wearing rose-tinted spectacles point out that interest rates today are low, so households can afford to borrow more.

Was it Edinburgh where – ahem – some idiot student fell off a giant pair of spectacles jutting out from the wall of an optician's and fractured his wrist?

By the fifteenth century, craftsmen in Florence had become the world's leading manufacturers of spectacles, turning out different powers of lenses so named for their resemblance to lentils.

But now, sports and the environment are indelibly linked from the glitziest athletic spectacles, played out on the world stage, to the everyday games played by billions of ordinary people and from this current generation of sports enthusiasts, a new generation of environmentalists may be emerging.

(On television, that is; the spectacle played out in the Marlins' almost empty stadium).

The diamond was war booty and its delivery was to be a spectacle carried out in much the same manner as the tribute paid by defeated enemies of Egyptian pharaohs and Roman emperors.

Those of us watching the Republican National Convention, where the spectacle played out, were meant to imagine that the seat was filled by an invisible President Obama, but the very visible, slightly disheveled Eastwood was too transfixing.