Example Sentences

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She tucked at her hair and looked at me near-sightedly.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

But he was smiling as he stepped to the doorway and near-sightedly surveyed the throng.

From The Turner Twins by Barbour, Ralph Henry

A moment later a round little man, with bulging eyes which peered near-sightedly and with a curiously worried expression from beneath a deeply furrowed forehead, seated himself at the desk behind which Roger was seated.

From Thirty by O'Brien, Howard Vincent

During pauses in dictation she had a way of peering near-sightedly, over her glasses at the dapper, well-dressed traveling salesman who was rolling off the items on his sale bill.

From Buttered Side Down: Stories by Ferber, Edna

During pauses in dictation she had a way of peering near-sightedly over her glasses at the dapper, well-dressed traveling salesman who was rolling off the items on his sale bill.

From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various