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adjective

myopic

unable to see distant objects clearly

In a sentence

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

  • A myopic child squints at the whiteboard while reading small print with ease, which is what the school screening looks for.

    Medicine

  • Too myopic for contact lenses to help much, he wore goggles from his first practice through his final professional season.

    Basketball

  • Falcons are the opposite of myopic, resolving a rabbit at two kilometers where our sharpest eyes lose it at three hundred.

    Science

  • A myopic photographer can turn the small dial beside the viewfinder until the focusing screen reads sharp without glasses.

    Photography

  • Recruiting boards once rejected myopic volunteers, and some young men memorized the eye chart to get through the door.

    History

  • Children who spend hours on screens indoors are more often myopic, so eye doctors now prescribe daylight as well as lenses.

    Technology

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