Examples of bespectacled in a Sentence
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In each incident, bald, bespectacled, wiry, wealthy Larry has stepped out of line, once physically, to defend or offend.
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Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Behind a bald and bespectacled priest (representing religion), a matron pushes a baby carriage alongside three white geese (family).
—Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
Today: Van Taylor, bespectacled, balding, and beaming, with same.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Email address: Inside one pawn shop, a bespectacled clerk and two undercover police officers are shown discussing a 9 mm pistol.
—Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 27 Mar. 2024
The bespectacled architect smiled from his white-walled office in Yokohama.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
Photograph: Katie Myers/Grist Jammie Hale is a bespectacled and bearded 51-year-old from Giles County, Virginia.
—Katie Myers, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2024
Even while conducting a lesson, the bespectacled Merrins, a native of Mississippi, was always impeccably dressed in a coat, tie and Hogan cap.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
In the 1980s, the bespectacled guitarist became a member of X-Pensive Winos, the band led by fellow guitarist Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Behind a bald and bespectacled priest (representing religion), a matron pushes a baby carriage alongside three white geese (family).
—Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
Today: Van Taylor, bespectacled, balding, and beaming, with same.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Email address: Inside one pawn shop, a bespectacled clerk and two undercover police officers are shown discussing a 9 mm pistol.
—Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 27 Mar. 2024
The bespectacled architect smiled from his white-walled office in Yokohama.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
Photograph: Katie Myers/Grist Jammie Hale is a bespectacled and bearded 51-year-old from Giles County, Virginia.
—Katie Myers, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2024
Even while conducting a lesson, the bespectacled Merrins, a native of Mississippi, was always impeccably dressed in a coat, tie and Hogan cap.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
In the 1980s, the bespectacled guitarist became a member of X-Pensive Winos, the band led by fellow guitarist Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
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First Known Use
1742, in the meaning defined above
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“Bespectacled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bespectacled. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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bespectacled
adjective
be·spec·ta·cled
bi-ˈspek-ti-kəld 
: wearing glasses
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