: something offensive to view
the old factory has become an eyesore
Examples of eyesore in a Sentence
The shack is a real eyesore.
the old abandoned house was a neighborhood eyesore
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Paris also recently mulled a ban on the small lock boxes that hosts use to store keys, often a telltale sign of short-term rentals, citing them as an eyesore.
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Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 18 June 2024
That began at 8:26 a.m., when a massive yellow grappler, a machine with a jaw-like arm at the top, started slowly chipping away at the corner window of the building’s third floor.
FROM FEBRUARY 2023: ‘Like an eyesore’.
—Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
Apartments especially were, at worst, havens for criminality and, at best, eyesores.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 July 2024
As a result, large swaths of the city’s poorest neighborhoods remain riddled with eyesores that belong to either the Land Bank or its sister agency, the Kansas City Homesteading Authority, far and away the biggest property owners east of Troost Avenue.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
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Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 18 June 2024
That began at 8:26 a.m., when a massive yellow grappler, a machine with a jaw-like arm at the top, started slowly chipping away at the corner window of the building’s third floor.
FROM FEBRUARY 2023: ‘Like an eyesore’.
—Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
Apartments especially were, at worst, havens for criminality and, at best, eyesores.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 July 2024
As a result, large swaths of the city’s poorest neighborhoods remain riddled with eyesores that belong to either the Land Bank or its sister agency, the Kansas City Homesteading Authority, far and away the biggest property owners east of Troost Avenue.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
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“Eyesore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eyesore. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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eyesore
noun
eye·sore
ˈī-ˌsōr 
-ˌsȯr
: something displeasing to the sight
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