How to Use tunnel vision in a Sentence

tunnel vision

noun

• His tunnel vision made sensible discussions on political issues nearly impossible.
• When asked about the dream her tunnel vision leads to, her smile gets big.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• Xavier can't get tunnel vision on one guy against the Bluejays.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2021
• But Xavier can't get tunnel vision on the star, either.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 17 Nov. 2022
• So that is the scary part, is that the confirmation bias and tunnel vision will just lead them to do nothing.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2024
• Jones is in his only second year, so the tunnel vision is part of his growing pains.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022
• Milliner Stephen Jones created the lace masks, which used tiers of sheer lace to create the effect of tunnel vision.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 23 Jan. 2018
• Jess had that same tunnel vision during their first dance.
  — Philly.com, 1 June 2018
• But Pomerantz also admits to a kind of tunnel vision on his own part.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
• Stay interested in the world around you, and avoid tunnel vision.
  — Arabella Delucco, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• The class put on glasses with wavy lenses and circles in the center of the lenses to reproduce a sort of tunnel vision.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 1 July 2019
• Getting to and from the mountain can be the worst part of a ski trip in a typical winter (hello, tail-light tunnel vision).
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
• But the 2000s showed what can happen when geeks with tunnel vision go mad in finance and politicians ignore them.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2020
• In this case, Wall Street’s vaccine tunnel vision has granted investors a chance to buy a blue-chip stock at a discount.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
• Learn how to keep the tunnel vision going, knowing all the distractions are going to come.
  — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2018
• Not everyone makes it, and Seydou struggles to adapt to survival-of-the-fittest tunnel vision.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• Complete tunnel vision on the task at hand, which was holding the first day of Patriots training camp.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2019
• Mayor Dean Trantalis, who has championed the idea for nearly two years as a way to get more cars off the road, still has tunnel vision.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
• To focus only on the original product in the face of a changing market is a kind of tunnel vision.
  — Susan Naftulin, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• His challengers have been wary about this second round, but Harvick has tunnel vision and is taking it one race at a time.
  — Jenna Fryer, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Sep. 2020
• In court, Zellner and her team argued that the detectives had tunnel vision.
  — Jenner Smith, ABC News, 7 May 2021
• Andrews is a great weapon, but Huntley has tunnel vision when looking his way.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 9 Jan. 2022
• The Ravens don’t have it right now, except for the Jackson-to-Mark Andrews combination, which has led to tunnel vision.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 11 Dec. 2021
• The question of justice for C.K. is coherent only via a weird sort of tunnel vision.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 10 Sep. 2018
• Who is Yuki as a person outside of Maya's tunnel vision?
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• Nwora gets tunnel vision with the rock in his hands far too often and forgets his teammates exist.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• Maybe send him a Hummer brochure to jolt his memory of the consequences of having tunnel vision.
  — Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 5 May 2018
• Like all disciplines, that creates a kind of tunnel vision.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2024
• The conflict with Ukraine and, more broadly, the existential confrontation with the West have profoundly reinforced a sense of tunnel vision among the Russian elites.
  — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2024
• Our agency works across multiple industries to stay current with digital trends as a whole, and avoid tunnel vision.
  — Isadora Marlow Morgan, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024