Example sentences for: shortsighted

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

  • And even Microsoft's fiercest critics rarely accuse this company of being stupid or shortsighted.

  • Editorialists grumbled that Clinton had come off as a wimp and a patsy; Sino-pundits called the shortsighted, conniving American president no match for the farsighted, conniving Chinese.

  • His oft-stated goal of waiting until he retires to worry about giving away his money is nice, but extremely shortsighted.

  • Homer's father (Chris Cooper) is shown bullying the boy into abandoning his education and going into the mines, a perspective less tragically shortsighted than plain moronic, given the fact that miners are dying all around him either from cancer or cave-ins.

  • The idea that Clinton's "approval" represents something new and immoral in the country is historically shortsighted.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast