optometryin a sentence
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That's why I avoid Dr. Huntley, the optometrist down the street from my office.
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optometrist = a doctor who tests eyesight and provides glasses or contact lenses to improve vision
- 7TH JUROR: Listen, will you come on already with the optometrist bit. (source)
- When the glasses were ready, we all went down to the optometrist.† (source)
- I pulled into an optometrist's parking lot, took off the Band-Aid, and looked at the wound.† (source)
- He takes off his thick-rimmed glasses, fitted by a Calcutta optometrist, polishes the lenses with the cotton handkerchief he always keeps in his pocket, A for Ashoke embroidered by his mother in light blue thread.† (source)
- "You'd better leave optometry to the experts.† (source)
- A short time later, an optometrist examined my eyes and studied the spots on my blouse.† (source)
- "Time to visit the optometrist," I muttered.† (source)
- The optometrist, in fact, calls Cedric every couple of weeks and, on the fifteenth of every month, like clockwork, sends Cedric a check for $200.† (source)
- Her father owns the optometry school where Billy was going.† (source)
- All specialists—podiatrists, optometrists, psychiatrists—but what if an accident were to happen in front of the building?† (source)
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- The optometrist prescribed glasses.
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She is studying optometry.
optometry = the profession of testing eyesight and providing corrective lenses
- "Call me Georgina," the horrible optometrist replied, winking.† (source)
- He was talking with a mouthful of Philadelphia cream cheese and salmon roe to an optometrist's wife.† (source)
- Now an optometrist called for attention.† (source)
- In time, his daughter Barbara married another optometrist.† (source)
- I told him once that my closest friend is an optometrist in New York Gity—and that's where I got my glasses," his father explained.† (source)
- "Well, all right," Violet said, and gave her brother a wave as he followed the optometrist farther down the hallway.† (source)
- Trout was talking to a Maggie White, who had given up being a dental assistant to become a homemaker for an optometrist.† (source)
- Later on, as a middle-aged optometrist, he would weep quietly and privately sometimes, but never make loud boo-hoo-ing noises.† (source)
- And then Billy was a middle-aged optometrist again, playing hacker's golf this time- on a blazing summer Sunday morning.† (source)
- It was New Year's Eve, and Billy was disgracefully drunk at a party where everybody was in optometry or married to an optometrist.† (source)
- "That often happens after optometry appointments," Dr. Orwell said smoothly.† (source)
- He had graduated from the Ilium School of Optometry-third in his class of forty-seven.† (source)
- There was an open copy of The Review of Optometry there.† (source)
- Valencia was the daughter of the owner of the Ilium School of Optometry.† (source)
- It had been the night school of the Ilium School of Optometry.† (source)
- Billy had committed himself in the middle of his final year at the Ilium School of Optometry.† (source)
- Everybody at the party was associated with optometry in some way, except Trout.† (source)
- He was hacking with three other optometrists.† (source)
- The owl was Billy's optometer in his office in Ilium.† (source)
- It was supposed to carry Billy and twenty-eight other optometrists to a convention in Montreal.† (source)
- What happens in 1968 will rule the fare of European optometrists for at least 50 years!† (source)
- With this warning, Jean Thiriart, Secretary of the National Union of Belgium Opticians, is pressing for formation of a 'European Optometry Society.'† (source)
- It was New Year's Eve, and Billy was disgracefully drunk at a party where everybody was in optometry or married to an optometrist.† (source)
- His father-in-law, who owned the Ilium School of Optometry, who had set Billy up in practice, was a genius in his field.† (source)
- After his honorable discharge from the Army in 1945, Billy again enrolled in the Ilium School of Optometry.† (source)
- She said that everybody at the Optometry School was sorry he was sick and hoped he would be well soon, and Billy said, 'When you see 'em, tell 'em, "Hello.† (source)
- He graduated from Ilium High School in the upper third of his class, and attended night sessions at the Ilium School of Optometry for one semester before being drafted for military service in the Second World War.† (source)
- He had five other optometrists working for him in the shopping plaza location, and netted over sixty thousand dollars a year.† (source)
- An optometer is an instrument for measuring refractive errors in eyes-in order that corrective lenses may be prescribed.† (source)
- Ilium is a particularly good city for optometrists because the General Forge and Foundry Company is there.† (source)
- According to plan, the barbershop quartet of optometrists, 'The Febs,' sang while people drank and Billy and Valencia put their arms around each other, just glowed.† (source)
- Early in 1968, a group of optometrists, with Billy among them, chartered an airplane to fly them from Ilium to an international convention of optometrists in Montreal.† (source)
- They were optometrists, too.† (source)
- Just as he avoids calling a fast train the /limited/, the /flier/ or the /cannon-ball/, so he never calls an /undertaker/ a /funeral director/ or /mortician/,[28] or a /dentist/ a /dental surgeon/ or /ontologist/, or an /optician/ an /optometrist/, or a /barber shop/ (he always makes it /barber's shop/) a /tonsorial parlor/, or a common public-house a /café/, a /restaurant/, an /exchange/, a /buffet/ or a /hotel/, or a tradesman a /storekeeper/ or /merchant/, or a fresh-water college a…† (source)
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