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noun

eyesight

CEFR B1

normal use of the faculty of vision

In a sentence

Six example sentences with eyesight, each labelled with its topic.

  • Her eyesight is sharp enough to read the shooting guard's shoulders and jump the passing lane before the ball moves.

    Basketball

  • Screening at the clinic caught the pressure rise early, and the patient's eyesight held steady for another decade.

    Medicine

  • Manual focus rewards good eyesight, though most photographers eventually admit the camera judges a fine edge better than they do.

    Photography

  • Eighteenth century navies tested a recruit's eyesight by asking him to name the flags flying on a distant mast.

    History

  • Monet's eyesight dimmed with cataracts, and the water lilies he painted afterward drift toward muddy reds.

    Art

  • Renewing a license after seventy requires an eyesight test, and applicants must read the fourth line without glasses.

    Law

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