: something offensive to view
the old factory has become an eyesore
Examples of eyesore in a Sentence
The shack is a real eyesore.
the old abandoned house was a neighborhood eyesore
Recent Examples on the Web
When Oceanwide stopped paying building contractors in 2019 and work ceased, the construction site wasn’t all that much of an eyesore, said Javier Cano, the area manager for Marriott hotels in Los Angeles, who oversees the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels at L.A. Live.
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Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
The apathetic voters who could decide the election Animal cruelty charges remain — for now — in CT goat hoarding case as judge delays decision
Graffiti is being cleaned off CT I-84 eyesore.
—Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
But how does a company spend $950 million on the massive 30-acre campus and keep graffiti, a reminder of when the station was an eyesore?
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2024
For two decades, Thor’s CEO Joe Sitt has allowed his historic Coney Island properties to deteriorate into eyesores, some of which required demolition.
—Ronald Stewart, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2024
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Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
The apathetic voters who could decide the election Animal cruelty charges remain — for now — in CT goat hoarding case as judge delays decision
Graffiti is being cleaned off CT I-84 eyesore.
—Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
But how does a company spend $950 million on the massive 30-acre campus and keep graffiti, a reminder of when the station was an eyesore?
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2024
For two decades, Thor’s CEO Joe Sitt has allowed his historic Coney Island properties to deteriorate into eyesores, some of which required demolition.
—Ronald Stewart, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2024
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“Eyesore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eyesore. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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eyesore
noun
eye·sore
ˈī-ˌsōr 
-ˌsȯr
: something displeasing to the sight
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