Example Sentences

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My journey into voluntary sightlessness began while backpacking through Southeast Asia in my mid-20s.

From Slate • Aug. 18, 2018

Visually, “Notes on Blindness” subtly evokes sightlessness with its many scenes with shadowy palette, figures in silhouette and brief interludes in which the screen goes dark.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2016

And rest assured, if you bother to press Williams on how Arya is dealing with sightlessness, she will say, in the nicest way possible, don’t waste MY time or YOURS.

From Washington Times • Apr. 20, 2016

In his ineffably moving sonnet "On His Blindness", Milton does not talk of his own sightlessness; rather, he turns an inner eye on "this dark world and wide".

From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2012

Its aspect was a shuttered front of sightlessness, a brick and stone blindness to the changes of the seasons and the futility of existence.

From The Hand in the Dark by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)