How to Use nearsighted in a Sentence

nearsighted

adjective

• I am a little nearsighted and need to wear glasses to drive.
• By 2050, estimates suggest that as much as a quarter of the world may be nearsighted.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2019
• Not too bad for a nearsighted young Lieutenant who had never fired a weapon before.
  — Debra Ciamacca, Time, 23 Feb. 2018
• Dear Mayo Clinic: My son is nearsighted and has been wearing glasses for three years.
  — Mayo Clinic News Network, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• Babies are born nearsighted, able to see only about 10 to 12 inches away.
  — Gurpreet Singh, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
• An older man, bald and flushed, pulled off his headset, blinking the vulnerable blink of the nearsighted.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• For a nearsighted someone who struggles to spot the puck even in high definition, Fox’s red comet that trailed a rocketed shot was ahead of its time.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2018
• The nearsighted landing radar fix was even more straightforward.
  — Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
• Acquaintances would remember him as a shy, nearsighted youth who liked soccer but preferred to spend his free time at the local mosque.
  — Author: Joby Warrick, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2019
• His guide located a buffalo—a feat the nearsighted Roosevelt could never have managed on his own.
  — H.w. Brands, Time, 22 Oct. 2019
• But those eyes have typically been nearsighted at best.
  — Jason Pohl, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2017
• His stepfather was an infantry officer who viewed his plump, nearsighted, flat-footed son as unfit for the Army.
  — John H. Richardson, Esquire, 10 Aug. 2010
• Large stakes in Uber and Slack have begun to look more nearsighted than visionary as the companies’ share prices have fallen in the months following their public offerings.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• At seven miles up and over ten miles from the landing site (or about 11 kilometers up and 16 kilometers away), the suddenly nearsighted radar was unable to lock onto anything.
  — Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
• If a child has two nearsighted parents, the hereditary genetic effects increase the child's chances of needing glasses to about 60 percent, if time spent outdoors is low.
  — CNN, 3 Oct. 2017
• Parents of children who are nearsighted will soon have another option for helping deal with the condition.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2019
• Childhood is an important time to think about myopia because myopic children tend to become more nearsighted over time.
  — Olivia Killeen, The Conversation, 21 May 2020
• Does more time outside help already nearsighted children?
  — CNN, 3 Oct. 2017
• Lasik surgeons use an ultraviolet laser to reduce the curvature of the cornea for people who are nearsighted, and to accent it for people who are farsighted.
  — Author: Roni Caryn Rabin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2018
• Oxpeckers riding on rhinos feast on ticks, and their calls warn the nearsighted herbivores about approaching humans.
  — Susanne Bard, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2020
• Throughout The Great, the black comedy’s satirical tone captures how theatrical and nearsighted politics can become amid a crisis.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 21 May 2020
• But the consolation, for a nearsighted person like me, is seeing individual gestures and mirroring so well.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2021
• Pity the fictional characters who are projections of a misogynistic or nearsighted writer’s longing.
  — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
• Adults may become nearsighted because their eyes naturally keep growing long enough to impair their distance vision, says Michelle Andreoli, an ophthalmologist at Northwestern Medicine.
  — Sarah Anderson, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022
• Tencent has also faced direct regulatory pressure this summer, after President Xi Jinping pointed out that too many children were nearsighted and said the government was taking action.
  — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2018
• What security does this provide beyond flummoxing nearsighted hackers?
  — Answer Fella, Esquire, 6 Aug. 2010

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024