Example Sentences

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But he says the bright light from a mobile phone screen can reduce your dark-adapted vision.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

Where I used to live in Colorado, I could see mag 5 stars from my driveway after I got dark-adapted, but light pollution from nearby towns made fainter stars invisible.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2023

And light has an especially potent effect if your eyes are dark-adapted, as they are if you have been asleep.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023

His goal, as he says, is to capture light as if in a dream: “We come into sunrise with dark-adapted eyes, so we’re more sensitive to light in the morning.”

From New York Times • May 9, 2013

The cones perhaps become somewhat dark-adapted, but the rods far outstrip them in this direction.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.