Example sentences for: shortsighted

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

  • The NSA is also hobbled by budget cuts, brain drain, and shortsighted management.

  • People may be too shortsighted in their saving decisions to look ahead to the implications of current government debt on future generations.

  • But that could be 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.

  • 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.


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