How to Use acuity in a Sentence

acuity

noun

• But among the few compensations of old age is the acuity of hindsight.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
• Booze gives the quiz player a sensation of mental acuity.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2017
• Mock away, @ away, fill those mentions with memes directed at my mental acuity or brain fitness.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 14 Jan. 2018
• Then everything rests on the acuity of the striker in the bow, who holds a darting gun loaded with an exploding harpoon.
  — Author: Julia O'Malley, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Aug. 2017
• Most of us who are past the age of 40 are aware from doleful personal experience that mental acuity wanes as the decades pass.
  — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
• But conclusions about Trump’s mental acuity were not expected.
  — Time, 13 Jan. 2018
• But conclusions about Trump's mental acuity were not expected.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• But conclusions about Trump’s mental acuity aren’t expected.
  — Time, 12 Jan. 2018
• To measure improvement in vision acuity—the clarity or sharpness of vision—researchers used a classic eye chart.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
• For the last time in their lives, the about-to-be Fabs had everything to prove and nothing to hide, and Braun reveals them with acuity and breathtaking honesty.
  — The Week Us, theweek, 29 Oct. 2024
• In the days since his comment broke, the various senators in the room exhibit different aural acuity according to their party lines.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Esquire, 15 Jan. 2018
• What’s unexpected, and impressive, is the social and emotional acuity of this variation on Shakespeare’s play.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• Kevin Young's Bunk traces with acuity and, somehow, humor America's history of fake news and conmen, the through line of which is our country's greatest hoax, race.
  — Vogue, 14 Dec. 2017
• Mannella has achromatopsia, a genetic eye disease that affects her acuity, sensitivity to light and ability to see color.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY College, 23 Aug. 2017
• The source was not commenting on McCain's mental acuity, but on his energy level, and pointing out that his lack of participation was not normal.
  — Jamie Gangel, Sunlen Serfaty and Eric Bradner, CNN, 14 Dec. 2017
• Sorkin’s vivid prose and peerless acuity for satire are gifts to the reader.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2020
• And to Timberland for having the acuity to sign you up.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2018
• On the acuity of the answer rests the safety, and thereby the sanity, of the nation.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
• At 93 does your mom still have the mental acuity to understand that the song is for her?
  — Sarah Rodman, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• The musicians are tight and Olivia has the vocal acuity and the stamina to keep the energy in the room turned up to eleven.
  — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Still, the improvement in acuity was small, Levin notes.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 2 Dec. 2020
• That’s what the emotion, acuity and energy of Porter can do.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021
• Not only has the volume of emergency calls spiked in both L.A. and San Diego, but so has the acuity of those calls.
  — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2021
• Blame your friend's acuity and the quality of your friendship.
  — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2019
• Blame your friend’s acuity and the quality of your friendship.
  — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
• Ahead of the exam, the White House said that tests for mental acuity would not be included.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 16 Jan. 2018
• Of course, there were also some shots at Biden’s mental acuity.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2020
• To some critics, the pinpoint acuity of these descriptions seemed too good to be true.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2021
• Her health and mental acuity have been questioned by the press and her colleagues in recent years.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• Still, the emotional acuity of a writer who felt things too deeply to stoop to cheap sentiment comes through.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024