Synonyms for eyesight

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ahy-sahyt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈaɪˌsaɪt

Définition of eyesight

Origin : c.1200, from eye (n.) + sight (n.).

noun vision

Example sentences :

Faith is the soul's eyesight; and when we possess it the world is never dark nor lonely.
Extract from : « Biographical Stories » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

First of all, it was evident that he must turn back if he was to save his eyesight.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

Low-lying alligator, evading the eyesight and discouraging hope!
Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens

In the pursuit he lost his eyesight, lost his health, but never lost his love of truth.
Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

After the death of her husband, she had worked so late as to endanger her eyesight.
Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola

His mother, an old vest-maker, now had to do housekeeping because her eyesight was poor.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

Can you by eyesight recognise the difference between a dry soil and a moist?
Extract from : « The Economist » by Xenophon

They could not, as they put it, doubt their own eyesight, implying that they would do so if they could.
Extract from : « The Goat-gland Transplantation » by Sydney B. Flower

They (p. 197) will have before them all the facts re my record and my eyesight.
Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.

At that instant of thrilling excitement and suspense I could not trust my eyesight.
Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey

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