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Synonyms for eyesight


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ahy-sahyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈaɪˌsaɪt



Définition of eyesight

Origin :
  • c.1200, from eye (n.) + sight (n.).
  • noun vision
Example sentences :
  • Faith is the soul's eyesight; and when we possess it the world is never dark nor lonely.
  • Extract from : « Biographical Stories » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • First of all, it was evident that he must turn back if he was to save his eyesight.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • Low-lying alligator, evading the eyesight and discouraging hope!
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • In the pursuit he lost his eyesight, lost his health, but never lost his love of truth.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • After the death of her husband, she had worked so late as to endanger her eyesight.
  • Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
  • His mother, an old vest-maker, now had to do housekeeping because her eyesight was poor.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • Can you by eyesight recognise the difference between a dry soil and a moist?
  • Extract from : « The Economist » by Xenophon
  • They could not, as they put it, doubt their own eyesight, implying that they would do so if they could.
  • Extract from : « The Goat-gland Transplantation » by Sydney B. Flower
  • They (p. 197) will have before them all the facts re my record and my eyesight.
  • Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
  • At that instant of thrilling excitement and suspense I could not trust my eyesight.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey

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