sightless

Example Sentences

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For a sightless artist—his preferred term—Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a remarkably visual performer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

Possibly to save audiences from a similar fate, we were never permitted to see these terrors, leaving us as sightless as the movie’s scrabbling survivors.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2023

The sightless child knows the other children, all able to see, are there but is left to stumble around, using sounds and knowledge of the space they're in as guides.

From Salon • May 25, 2023

Chinese red-headed centipedes, which are sightless, use an unusual thermal sensor to detect sunlight, a study has found.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 15, 2023

He glanced back apprehensively, half expecting to find the limp white things crawling after him in sightless pursuit or snaking up through the treetops in a writhing and ungovernable mutative mass.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller