How to Use optician in a Sentence

optician

noun
  • Satisfied, Ja’karri handed the test frames back to the optician, hopped off the chair and went back to camp.
    Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
  • There was a butcher and optician, goats for fresh milk.
    Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 4 June 2021
  • And take them to an optician to buff out minor scratches.
    Matthew Solan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And that's when Mary Mccloskey, an optician in New Albany, stepped in.
    Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The optician goes back to the school about two weeks later to deliver and size the students’ new glasses.
    Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
  • Justine dragged him to the optician and he was fitted for his first pair of lenses on the Monday of the Houston Open, the week before the Masters.
    Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 3 May 2018
  • Nicholas de Liagre, who lives nearby, walked over to the desk where the co-owner and optician Scott F. Malsin, 30, was sitting.
    Shivani Vora, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2018
  • For this piece, Cai spoke with a licensed optician of 20 years and performed in-depth research of her own to inform this story.
    Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The new average wage for Walmart opticians is more than $22.50 an hour.
    Serenah McKay, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2023
  • Now opticians and optometrists are arguing over what to do with them.
    Christian Buck, WIRED, 13 Aug. 1999
  • But her sister is an optician at a practice that has been harder hit by online sales.
    Andy Marso, kansascity.com, 10 May 2017
  • In the future, then, a visit to the opticians might also lead to a diagnosis about mental health.
    The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • Specsavers, which runs a chain of high-street opticians, now routinely offers the same sort of scans as Moorfields’ in half of its 800 branches.
    The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Some 4,000 of Walmart’s opticians will also be getting a raise.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 5 June 2023
  • Herron was born in Newcastle, one of six children of an optician and a nursery-school teacher.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The glass is interchangeable, enabling an optician to change the lenses to your prescription.
    Gregg Ellman, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Earlier in the day, the male boar had injured a woman after entering an optician's.
    Alexander Pearson, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Truffles, now famous for her glamorous glasses -- which range from sparkling purple ones to her favorite green pair -- works alongside her mom, an optician.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Chicago-area members, including an optician, a CPA, a stay-at-home mom and an 81-year-old jumper, come for nostalgia, for fun, for fitness and for camaraderie.
    Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2019
  • As well as offering eye tests and their core collection of frames, Jermyn Street will also be the main outlet for the optician’s bespoke range, where buyers can order made-to-measure specs.
    Charlotte Owen, A-LIST, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Chrissy Friberg, a traveling optician from Washington state, spent a couple of days in Wales just before the attack, holding a clinic for the villagers.
    Gene Johnson, Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Chrissy Friberg, a traveling optician from Washington state, spent a couple days in Wales just before the attack, holding a clinic for the villagers.
    Mark Thiessen, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
  • To help kids feel at ease during their exams, Pennsylvania optician Danielle Crull enlisted the help of her rescue cat, Truffles.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 27 Dec. 2021
  • They are affixed to churches, hardware stores, historic landmarks, and an optician’s office.
    Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • Spending time with the canvases helps bring the artist's hazy subject matter -- whether orange blossom, the house of a neighboring optician or clouds swirling in pale blue skies -- into sharper focus.
    Oscar Holland, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Marshall Ensley, an optician at Allen Eyecare Center, leads business networking for the office, about two miles south of the outlet mall.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 9 May 2023
  • Growing up as the son of an optician, Alex Feldman became familiar with optics and the craftsmanship behind eyewear at an early age.
    Roxana Becerril, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2022
  • For them, Walmart provides not just food but a pharmacy, an optician, a money center, an auto center, and a mobile-services provider.
    Brian Barrett, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2016
  • In one big shopping mall near a border crossing, opticians and dental clinics promise cheaper service than Hong Kong that requires only a short trip.
    Olivia Wang, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Back in Carmarthenshire my mother booked an emergency eye appointment with the local optician.
    Jessica Phillips, refinery29.com, 29 Sep. 2020

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