Example sentences for: myopic

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

  • Damn the myopic but all-seeing eyes of that news-ferret Cramer for having the cruel wit to reduce him to an onomatopoeia.

  • 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!"

  • 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.

  • ? Weisberg makes the myopic error of defining "everybody" as the pustular ranks of Republicans and Democrats incestuously engaged in doling out political favors to their campaign contributors.


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