How to Use acuity in a Sentence

acuity

noun

• Sorkin’s vivid prose and peerless acuity for satire are gifts to the reader.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2020
• And to Timberland for having the acuity to sign you up.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2018
• On the acuity of the answer rests the safety, and thereby the sanity, of the nation.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
• At 93 does your mom still have the mental acuity to understand that the song is for her?
  — Sarah Rodman, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• The musicians are tight and Olivia has the vocal acuity and the stamina to keep the energy in the room turned up to eleven.
  — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Still, the improvement in acuity was small, Levin notes.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 2 Dec. 2020
• That’s what the emotion, acuity and energy of Porter can do.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021
• But among the few compensations of old age is the acuity of hindsight.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
• Not only has the volume of emergency calls spiked in both L.A. and San Diego, but so has the acuity of those calls.
  — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2021
• Blame your friend’s acuity and the quality of your friendship.
  — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
• Blame your friend's acuity and the quality of your friendship.
  — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2019
• Ahead of the exam, the White House said that tests for mental acuity would not be included.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 16 Jan. 2018
• Of course, there were also some shots at Biden’s mental acuity.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2020
• To some critics, the pinpoint acuity of these descriptions seemed too good to be true.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2021
• Her health and mental acuity have been questioned by the press and her colleagues in recent years.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• The crew described sensations of rare clarity and acuity brought on by the sheer scale of risk.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
• With wit, acuity and tenderness, Laskin paints a vivid portrait of a young man coming of age.
  — Malcom Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• But thanks to mental acuity tests, brain scans and patient histories, that’s no longer the case.
  — By David Knopf, kansascity.com, 20 June 2017
• Still, the emotional acuity of a writer who felt things too deeply to stoop to cheap sentiment comes through.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
• The who and the where matter far less than the what itself, spurring acuity and urgency from Staples as the narrator.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 13 July 2021
• At the same time, refusing to debate could give jibes against Biden’s mental acuity legs.
  — Washington Examiner, 5 Aug. 2020
• It’s the next level of acuity that is certainly much harder.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2022
• It’s not so far-fetched to think that people could lose their jobs because a phone thinks their mental acuity has declined.
  — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2021
• Age has nothing to do with mental acuity, morals or beliefs.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 July 2024
• More to the point, the bar for mental acuity and stability for Presidents has lowered along with much else in the past four years.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
• The acuity of a child’s needs will be evaluated with a tool known as the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths assessment.
  — Ana B. Ibarra, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
• The episodes might have raised parallel concerns about age and mental acuity.
  — Rebecca Davis O’Brien, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• For the last time in their lives, the about-to-be Fabs had everything to prove and nothing to hide, and Braun reveals them with acuity and breathtaking honesty.
  — The Week Us, theweek, 29 Oct. 2024
• To measure improvement in vision acuity—the clarity or sharpness of vision—researchers used a classic eye chart.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
• Popular on Variety Hanks prepared for his role as Richard by exploring how a person’s mental acuity changes over time.
  — Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024