Sample sentences for CATARACT - verbalworkout.com

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Definition

clouding of the natural lens of the eye

Much more rarely, cataract can reference falling water as from a waterfall or series of rapids and waterfalls.

My grandmother is getting cataract surgery.

cataract = clouding of the natural lens of the eye

He felt her there, he saw her without opening his eyes, her hair burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw, her eyes with a kind of cataract unseen but suspect far behind the pupils, the reddened pouting lips, the body as thin as a praying mantis from dieting, and her flesh like white bacon.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

cataract = clouding of the natural lens of the eye

I'm no longer cold or aching, or hunched over or deformed, or almost blind with cataract eyes.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Notebook

cataract = clouding of the natural lens of the eye

Have you ever bathed in a mountain river that is running in shallow cataracts over red and blue and yellow stones with the sun on it?
C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew

cataracts = waterfalls or rapids

And then she forgot everything else, because Aslan himself was coming, leaping down from cliff to cliff like a living cataract of power and beauty.
C.S. Lewis -- The Last Battle
The cortisone they took led to cataracts, diabetes, hip fractures, and other side effects.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
I had an operation on my eyes yesterday for cataracts.
James McBride -- The Color of Water
Reckon we're in Cataract Canyon.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
A great cataract of flounces rolled down from the young lady's waist to Newman's feet; he had to step aside to avoid treading upon them.
Henry James -- The American
His eyes were hazy and nearly vacant, the eyes of an old man stricken with cataracts.
Stephen King -- Cujo
His eyes, going gray with cataracts, seemed to see through me.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Wedding
Then I heard the cataract of talk, which I knew he engendered; that was what Sunday at Mingo began with.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
As though she'd contracted an advanced case of cataracts.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
"Now just suppose," he said, "we were on our way up the Nile to the first cataract, sailing in a dahabiyeh.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
When I lowered my arms to look again, Martin's head had turned in my direction, one cataract eye wheeling crazily before fixing, it seemed, on me.
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The boat was leaning, the water was sliced sharply and fell away in green cascades, in bubbles, in cataracts.
Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse
Cataracts were slowly obscuring Stefan's eyes; the disease had cost him half a finger and his last job.
Junot Diaz -- Drown
Teacher Pan had cataracts and worried that soon he would not be able to paint anymore.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
Some survivors — even children — were developing what were called A-bomb cataracts.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima
His eye managed to twinkle through the veil of cataracts.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

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