How to Use sighted in a Sentence

sighted

adjective

• All of this seems short-sighted, not least for the banks.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• To pencil him in as a starter right now is short-sighted, at best.
  — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2018
• Calls to abolish the agency are short-sighted and wrong.
  — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2018
• In the most short-sighted and simplistic sense this may be true.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 7 Oct. 2019
• This year, there have been 16 sighted in the bay — including one that died.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024
• Do not enter the water if sharks are known to be present, and get out of the water if sharks are sighted.
  — Gary T. Mills, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
• Both blind and sighted people inferred movement from the start and stop of sounds.
  — Ione Fine, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2023
• There were children who were able to move from a Braille classroom to a sighted classroom.
  — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2017
• Besides, that is the short-sighted view of Motta’s career, as well as Fitch’s.
  — Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2023
• Hoping for a 2021 that would bring us out of the pandemic and back to business as usual was short-sighted.
  — Melanie Fine, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
• Pruning a non-revenue sport or two or 11 is both awful and short-sighted.
  — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2020
• Running, even with the help of a sighted guide, seemed risky, if not impossible.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• But soon the true costs of these short-sighted policies will begin to manifest.
  — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
• The school board’s way, with each school having a balanced racial attendance, is much the more fair and far-sighted approach.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2020
• Yet there is a robust betting market, thanks largely to the short-sighted data deal the ITF signed.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 2 May 2018
• Trump's budget is a short-sighted, greedy proposal that will harm his voters the most.
  — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 June 2017
• Bringing an electric car to a high-speed chase, a near-sighted police offer to a bust and a pacifist to a gun fight—what can go wrong?
  — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 15 Oct. 2019
• But experts caution that this line of thinking is short-sighted.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2022
• Someone who is blind can do anything a sighted person can do.
  — Catie Wegman, sun-sentinel.com, 19 June 2019
• The school board certainly deserves a decent chance to work out its fairer and more far-sighted plan.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2020
• Those sorts of critiques are short-sighted and, frankly, ignorant.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2021
• He's hiked for over 20 miles on the Appalachian Trail with one of his military comrades, who served as a sighted guide.
  — Fox News, 3 Sep. 2022
• Like some politicians from the 1850s, their extremism is selfish and short-sighted.
  — Sean Busick, al, 10 Oct. 2022
• This is short-sighted and inhumane even in the best of times, but our current news cycle highlights how the health of a few can impact us all.
  — Jennifer Greenfield, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2020
• After that, the movie is mostly about her adjustment to life as a sighted person.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 23 Oct. 2017
• That is a short-sighted vision that harms other people.
  — Judy Cantor-Navas, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2018
• To say that branding isn't important would be short-sighted.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2022
• While well-intended, this approach is short-sighted and does not help your employer brand in the long run.
  — J.d. Conway, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• As a cyclist, this feels frustrating and short-sighted.
  — Adrienne So, Wired, 6 Jan. 2022
• Like all the examiners, Gupta was rigorously trained by four sighted trainers who taught her about the female body, in particular the anatomy of the breast.
  — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 8 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024