Example sentences for: myopic

How can you use “myopic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Our viewpoint is often myopic, with our noses pressed against the back row of the chessboard.

  • It's hard to buy the trumped-up scene where the principal--another myopic patriarch--warns Dern not to give her students "false hopes" (although this does give Dern a chance to do her rubber lips specialty, gazing at the principal in wordless horror while her mouth continually reforms itself like some strange Gumby creature).

  • Telling the story of a myopic adolescent girl who's persecuted by her peers and slighted by her suburban family (which reveres her pretty little sister, a goody-two-shoes in a tutu), Solondz prolonged his heroine's humiliations until I wanted to scream, "I GET IT ALREADY!"

  • W. Norton, 2003), the late medical historian Roy Porter wrote that “the biomedical model can be myopic, searching ever more microscopically for disease but often omitting the wider picture of populations, environments and health.”

  • The paper condemns Congress' myopic intent to cut foreign aid and argues that international assistance is a good investment because it can bolster political stability.


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