eyesore
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"Burying the cables is expensive so if this is an alternative to make it a bit less of an eyesore, it's probably a good idea."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Since then, the site has sat empty and become an eyesore, said Chito Vela, an Austin city council member whose district includes the project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
But for everyone else in the Studio City neighborhood with a view of the house, it is an eyesore and a hazard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
"It has been an eyesore for a number of years," she said.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
I says that old rattletrap’s just an eyesore, yet you’ll keep it standing there in the carriage house a hundred years just so that boy can ride to the cemetery once a week.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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But festering eyesores are everywhere, as Bass herself indicated when she called in to KTLA-TV.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
As for the perception that storage facilities are eyesores?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
If fashion is a storyteller, what are these eyesores trying to tell us?
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
He spoke glowingly about his father’s early years as a Manhattan developer, his work turning eyesores into thriving skyscrapers, and the “vision he had to do things differently.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
The residence of Mr. Peter Pett, the well-known financier, on Riverside Drive is one of the leading eyesores of that breezy and expensive boulevard.
From Piccadilly Jim by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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