How to Use eyesore in a Sentence

eyesore

noun

• The shack is a real eyesore.
• Neighbors complained that the place was an eyesore, a nuisance and a draw for criminals.
  — Christina Tkacik, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2018
• Neighbors complained that the place was an eyesore, a nuisance, a draw for criminals.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Mosley said that the street across from her church had become an eyesore over the last year, cluttered with trash and sewage dumped by people living there in campers and buses.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Paris also recently mulled a ban on the small lock boxes that hosts use to store keys, often a telltale sign of short-term rentals, citing them as an eyesore.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 18 June 2024
• But after three decades of exposure to sun and rain, the wagon became dilapidated and was an eyesore.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Glen Park neighbors turned Penny Lane from an eyesore into an urban treasure.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• Dark stores are large commercial buildings that are closed for business but remain standing, and that can eventually become eyesores.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Apartments especially were, at worst, havens for criminality and, at best, eyesores.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 July 2024
• A few dozen spectators joined local officials to watch the start of tearing down the familiar eyesores off West 65th Street.
  — Marvin Fong, cleveland.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• Officials view the crowded, slum-like neighborhoods as fire hazards and eyesores, despite the fact that the migrants do the menial jobs that allow a city like Beijing to function.
  — Javier C. HernÁndez, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2018
• The City of Cupertino is holding sessions taking in community feedback about what to do with the mall, seen as an eyesore by some residents.
  — Wendy Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
• The flare stack is the kind of eyesore that raises the ire of locals.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2019
• Don't let a clunky range hood be an eyesore in your kitchen.
  — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2022
• Even last year’s eyesore of a unit managed to find the end zone in all 16 games.
  — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
• The Ravens’ offense, meanwhile, was an eyesore for much of the night.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• That’s a long time for the neighborhood to live with this eyesore.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• At 3-for-45, the Wild has the worst clip in the NHL — an eyesore that continues to fester and cost the team points.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021
• The site takes up an entire city block and is an eyesore on C Street.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2019
• No one seems to know what will become of the place — or whether it’s art or an eyesore.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2019
• Well, some would call it an eyesore but beauty is in the eye of the lease holder.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
• The living room's stone wall was an eyesore from day one.
  — Lisa Mowry, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2021
• The house on the hill is an eyesore that will ruin her TV special.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• Here, a large AC panel in the back wall was a major eyesore.
  — Ella Field, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2023
• The concrete skirt remained around the hole, which was an eyesore filled with weeds.
  — oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2021
• Not only that, but this project is a huge, hideous eyesore.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2019
• They’ll get emptied and filled up by the public, and there will be no eyesore.
  — Curbed, 2 Feb. 2024
• Not all pet essentials have to be an eyesore around the home.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2021
• None of these insects cause the plant much damage, despite the eyesore to us.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2023
• But those, frankly, are a bit of an eyesore and don’t seem to radiate very far!
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024