How to Use lazy eye in a Sentence

lazy eye

noun
  • It’s now being used to treat lazy eye in children.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In some children, lazy eye can be caused by a combination of these problems.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2021
  • It's usually done during childhood for conditions like lazy eye, but sometimes adults need this type of surgery, too.
    — Troy Bedinghaus, Od, Verywell Health, 1 June 2024
  • Witnesses identified Johnson in part because of a lazy eye, court records say.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • In amblyopic patients, the brain begins to turn off its connection to the lazy eye favoring the stronger one.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Police described the attacker as a white man in his 20s who has a lazy eye, sandy brown hair that was longer on top, and scruffy facial hair.
    — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Her mother Ally Parker says her daughter’s only major symptom was a lazy eye.
    — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Amblyopia, or lazy eye, is the most common visual impairment in US children.
    — Chelsea Leu, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The injections are also used to treat medical conditions such as neck spasms, sweating, overactive bladder, lazy eye and migraines.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • The center described the young girl as having a birthmark on her forehead, one lazy eye and potentially requiring medical attention.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Failing to address eye misalignment, or to provide glasses for a child who needs them, may lead to abnormal visual development or amblyopia, which is a weak, lazy eye.
    — Benjamin Botsford, The Conversation, 30 May 2024
  • Amblyopia -- also known as lazy eye -- is a childhood disorder where nerve pathways between the brain and an eye aren't properly stimulated, so the brain favors one eye.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Untreated hyperopia can lead to the development of a lazy eye (amblyopia) or additional vision loss.
    — Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
  • Those symptoms included numbness, depression, a worsening lazy eye, and difficulty speaking and moving her left leg.
    — Juno Demelo, Glamour, 3 Aug. 2020
  • His approach to embodying a crusty character with a peculiar physical trait — a lazy eye — brings depth to an already compelling portrayal of a demanding teacher.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Children with amblyopia, commonly known as lazy eye, who also love watching Ash Ketchum, Pikachu, and friends fight Team Rocket are in luck.
    — PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
  • From a clinical care perspective, follow-ups are necessary to monitor improvements in visual acuity and prevent other sight disorders, such as lazy eye, where one eye is used more than the other.
    — Sachin Rawat, Big Think, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Their pediatrician, for example, suggested Quincy’s lazy eye or too little time spent lying on her stomach might explain her motor and sensory delays.
    — Lydia Denworth, Science | AAAS, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Amblyopia, also known as a lazy eye, is a fairly common condition, with approximately 1% to 4% of adults in the United States being diagnosed with it.
    — Essence, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Leave a comment View Comments Failing to address eye misalignment, or to provide glasses for a child who needs them, may lead to abnormal visual development or amblyopia, which is a weak, lazy eye.
    — Benjamin Botsford, CNN, 10 June 2024
  • The headset, sensors, and controls that Kiehl and Vasilescu hope will allow children with Amblyopia (lazy eye) to receive corrective treatment while playing games in a virtual reality world.
    — Chuck Gibson, Cincinnati.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Anime giant Crunchyroll has partnered with Luminopia, a digital health company that devises new treatments for significant neuro-visual disorders, for a new VR treatment for kids with lazy eye (amblyopia).
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Angela Bettis gives one of the best horror performances of the decade as the title character, a deeply lonely veterinary assistant and amateur taxidermist with a lazy eye and no friends, who loses her already tenuous grip on reality after experiencing one too many romantic rejections.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Spencer Helliwell from Swindon, England, was diagnosed with medulloblastoma in March 2024 after developing a lazy eye and symptoms including dribbling and headaches, his mother Char Humphries told the BBC.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025

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