blindness

[ UK /blˈa‍ɪndnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫaɪndnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being blind or lacking sight
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How To Use blindness In A Sentence

  • Thoroughly frustrated with the blindness of his countrymen, he resolved to establish a community in America.
  • Strenuously jamming their alleged principles into an oubliette is an exercise that apparently causes blindness, as well. Archive 2009-11-01
  • Ten millilitres of pure methanol can cause blindness and 30 millilitres death, so it is just small amounts.
  • This difficult-to-treat strain, called neurosyphilis, can cause blindness and stroke, and a CDC researcher said that it's spreading among this cohort because, although they're already HIV-positive, they are not using condoms. Gabriel Rotello: Deadly Error Alert: Andrew Sullivan's Latest AIDS Fantasy
  • Her blindness of both eyes resulted from a traffic accident.
  • Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
  • Onchocerciasis eliminated from west Africa: Officials from the World Health Organization last week celebrated the elimination of onchocerciasis, or river blindness, as a public health threat in west Africa.
  • For there is some degree of blindness and fear about these things, an avoidance of the spirit in athletics.
  • Unfortunately, the America's-always-to-blame bozos get all the publicity - and you're giving them more by implying that their moral blindness characterizes the academy as a whole.
  • Because wilful blindness to facts is rarely good policy. Times, Sunday Times
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