nearsighted
Example Sentences
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Time indoors looking at screens can cause eyeballs to elongate, leaving kids nearsighted for life.
Studies have found that the more time kids spend outdoors, the less likely they are to become nearsighted.
That was the path he had chosen: to die to all who knew him, and to all he knew—his devoted wife, his bumbling, nearsighted son, his palatial home, his vast fortune.
From Literature
A stray orange cat; a séance in a hostel; a “nearsighted galoot” who decodes cryptic messages from Radio Pyongyang; flashlights that aren’t just flashlights — these bread crumbs guide us to the novel’s denouement.
From Los Angeles Times
With a nearsighted squint, he scanned the bazaar.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
