How to Use sighted in a Sentence

sighted

adjective
  • The team had been a bit far-sighted for most of the year.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Just so smug and elitist and short-sighted.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
  • That would be unfair and short sighted.
    Teresa Hopke, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • To pencil him in as a starter right now is short-sighted, at best.
    Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2018
  • In the most short-sighted and simplistic sense this may be true.
    Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 7 Oct. 2019
  • But there's no question that drones are being sighted.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Thank you, sketchy escort, for being my makeshift sighted guide.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Someone who is blind can do anything a sighted person can do.
    Catie Wegman, sun-sentinel.com, 19 June 2019
  • Newly-sighted people must learn to see.
    Sachin Rawat, Big Think, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Maybe, for short-sighted leaders and investors.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But experts caution that this line of thinking is short-sighted.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2022
  • This year, there have been 16 sighted in the bay — including one that died.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024
  • Carter said this short-sighted, morally bankrupt approach had to end.
    Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Do not enter the water if sharks are known to be present, and get out of the water if sharks are sighted.
    Gary T. Mills, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
  • Two perfectly sighted people do not see the same image in the same way.
    Literary Hub, 22 July 2026
  • Those sorts of critiques are short-sighted and, frankly, ignorant.
    Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Like not making a bad trade or not making a short-sighted free agent investment.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • And those groups may make their own determination of when the moon gets sighted.
    Forrest Brown, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
  • But soon the true costs of these short-sighted policies will begin to manifest.
    Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
  • This isn't the first time the pair was sighted on social media together.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
  • How could my father have missed it, this fundamental tenet of the sighted world.
    Sage Mehta, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • There were children who were able to move from a Braille classroom to a sighted classroom.
    Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Running, even with the help of a sighted guide, seemed risky, if not impossible.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Trump's budget is a short-sighted, greedy proposal that will harm his voters the most.
    Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 June 2017
  • Pruning a non-revenue sport or two or 11 is both awful and short-sighted.
    Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The rapper was, in fact, later sighted in the streets with Travis Scott.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 June 2026
  • After that, the movie is mostly about her adjustment to life as a sighted person.
    Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Miran said not continuing to ease would be short-sighted.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The school board certainly deserves a decent chance to work out its fairer and more far-sighted plan.
    Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2020
  • So, grant them a little grace, even if this particular touch point is a little short-sighted.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025

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