How to Use myopia in a Sentence

myopia

noun

• She wears eyeglasses to correct her myopia.
• This is the sign that the myopia of the film’s frame isn’t a miscalculation.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
• The cure for this epidemic of meaty myopia rests in places like Hodori.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 15 July 2019
• Those jokes are still pretty good, even if Will and Grace and their myopia are the punchline.
  — Willa Paskin, Slate Magazine, 28 Sep. 2017
• The eggs can stand for the czar’s unhelpful myopia during the perilous days of 1917.
  — Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• This took away about a quarter of the extra myopia in firstborns.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2015
• That same myopia makes the moments when those players err sting more.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 24 May 2021
• Once a kid gets myopia, the eye will continue to elongate.
  — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 16 May 2024
• In myopia, either the optical power of the lens is too strong or the eyeball is too long.
  — Sarah Anderson, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022
• Keep telling yourself that his myopia says nothing at all about you.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• Judicial myopia ought not block the public’s right to know.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2021
• This myopia is the very reason many employees will leave.
  — Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• With myopia, the eye is growing, but growing too long for distant rays of light to focus accurately on the back of the eye.
  — CNN, 3 Oct. 2017
• The study of history is also a safeguard against myopia.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• At any time, the refugee is likely to be confronted—confounded—by the myopia of non-Vietnamese.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• No level of myopia now can shield Bochy from the vision of his final day in the Giants dugout after 13 seasons.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 22 Sep. 2019
• So: glasses at age seven, contact lenses at 13, and a life spent with high myopia.
  — Longreads, 25 Aug. 2023
• Sure, white people are bland and naive—how about tackling their willful blindness and myopia?
  — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 2 Nov. 2017
• The likely culprits are the inertia and myopia of savers and retirement-plan...
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 7 June 2019
• But this myopia can and does blind us to the reality of how wealth actually works.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 14 Oct. 2017
• A similar myopia surrounded the invention of the laser in the postwar era.
  — Steven Johnson, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2014
• This myopia is part of a pattern that will repeat itself often in this series.
  — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• In myopia, light coming into the eye can no longer focus at the retina because the eyeball has become too long.
  — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2012
• Is Peter Pan a children’s story warning kids about the myopia of adulthood?
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
• The delusion of those parting with their money often matches the myopia of those squandering it.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• The poverty debate has suffered from a similar kind of myopia.
  — Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• But even mild myopia requires investments of both time and money to manage.
  — Sarah Anderson, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022
• Here, Thomas’s argument falls prey to a certain middle-class myopia.
  — Cintra Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
• In time, a kind of ironic distance settled on us, and students, too, began poking at the myopia and the hypocrisies of various leaders.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
• Was Franklin largely a horny quip machine whose brilliance was in getting the French to act against their national self-interest, in a foreshadowing of the myopia that led to the French Revolution several years later?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024