Sample Sentences forcataract (editor-reviewed)
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My grandmother is getting cataract surgery.cataract = for clouding of the natural lens of the eye
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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. (source)cataract = clouding of the natural lens of the eye
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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? (source)cataracts = waterfalls or rapids
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A dozen pigeons roosting on the cathedral spire cataract down its length and wheel out over the sea.† (source)
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The two floods combined in a steaming, boiling cataract and flowed on as one toward the black fog.† (source)
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He shook his head again, slowly this time, and tears leaked from his cataract-laden eyes.† (source)
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I'm no longer cold or aching, or hunched over or deformed, or almost blind with cataract eyes.† (source)
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My mother is the surviving half of a blindfold trapeze act, not a fact I think about much even now that she is sightless, the result of encroaching and stubborn cataracts.† (source)
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When he raised his head, I saw from his grizzled face and cataract-clouded eyes that he was very old.† (source)
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I went every morning with him to check the traps at the perimeter, but it was only to distance my mind from my troubles; we collected nothing and spent most of the hours walking silently, gazing out at the hardened cataracts of ice.† (source)
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Binks said this with one of those I'm almost dead, I can say this kind of stuff grins and cataract-clouded eyes.† (source)
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Like the mustached doctor in the bazaar clinic, I wanted to scrape off cataracts, fit plastic legs on stumps, work miracles.† (source)
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Before his discharge, an ophthalmologist found that he had the beginnings of an A-bomb cataract.† (source)
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Our Father claims the Kwilu is navigable downstream from here all the way to where it joins the Congo River; upstream, one may go only as far as the high, scenic cataracts that thunder just to the south of us.† (source)
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We had reached the turn in our walk, the stone bridge at the foot of the last and smallest lake, under which the swollen waters fell in a cataract to the stream below; beyond, the path doubled back towards the house.† (source)
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Behind them, the Benare seemed a small thing tied to a sagging dock; the Hoolie ran southwest into the blue haze of distance below the town and curved west above it, narrowing toward the impassable Lower Cataracts a dozen kilometers uprivcr from Edge.† (source)
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