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

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

Among his most famous black-and-white photographs was one of a blind boy, seemingly trying to transcend his sightlessness by reaching for a ribbon of light on a wall.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2015

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

Some steps more, and now he was at the mound which surrounds the tree: stood, listened: silence, sightlessness: Margaret not there.

From The Lord of the Sea by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)