How to Use ocular in a Sentence

ocular

adjective
  • Brennan was also struck by the number of cases of ocular melanoma in one town.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 18 Apr. 2017
  • Sam Hell was born with an ocular albinism, which causes his eyes to appear red.
    — courant.com, 14 May 2021
  • Symptoms of uveitis include ocular pain and reddening of the eye.
    — Texas A&m University, Houston Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Viewing it for more than a minute is ocular agony, the visual equivalent of an overdose.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
  • For the last decade, the role of the microbiome in ocular health was controversial.
    — Scientific American, 23 June 2019
  • The rubber ring that keeps the sharp edge of the ocular lens from biting the brow came off somewhere during our low-light testing.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 18 Aug. 2020
  • And thank you to these two helpful yet lifeless dolls whose vacant ocular cavities will haunt me until end times.
    — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2017
  • But could an ocular dosing of the treatment help patients whose disease affects the tissues of the eye?
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The senior pup was found with an untreated wound on his head, very underweight with ocular discharge and found to have tick fever.
    — azcentral, 21 Feb. 2020
  • In April, when the town signed contracts for those studies, 12 cases of ocular melanoma were known.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 22 June 2017
  • Others are malignant like an ocular melanoma.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Ocular syphilis, which can strike at any stage of infection, often appears as blurred vision and reddened eyes.
    — Author: Jan Hoffman, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The same man was found to have given five middle-aged white women in southwest Michigan ocular syphilis.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Only some species of shark, including the great white, use ocular rotation to protect their eyes.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2016
  • The only potential drawback is that the 45-degree ocular tube may be hard for kids to see through.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2023
  • She was diagnosed in 2011 with ocular melanoma and spent five years in treatment for the rare eye cancer.
    — Jonel Aleccia and Melissa Bailey, CNN, 2 Nov. 2017
  • As a foreign body, contacts can irritate and dry out your eyes no matter how great your ocular health typically is.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Aug. 2018
  • In about 50% of ocular melanoma cases, the cancer spreads, or metastasizes, to the liver.
    — Mark Lieber, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • The longer the ocular surface is inflamed, the more uncomfortable the patient becomes.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 1 Aug. 2018
  • Zoo personnel had monitored and treated him for a chronic infection in his left ear, along with high ocular pressure, the zoo said.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Kash Pressley was born with ocular albinism, an eye condition that reduces the coloring of the iris and retina.
    — Lavendrick Smith, charlotteobserver, 18 Oct. 2017
  • All the animals are rescues — even the hamster, which had an ocular condition that prompted Charlotte to take it home from a pet store.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The next segment focuses on jungle bugs that use their ocular super powers and long sticky tongues to devour their insect brothers and sisters.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 22 May 2017
  • She'd been diagnosed with ocular melanoma, a rare eye cancer that had the potential to spread and cross her placenta to infect the babies in vitro.
    — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 8 Jan. 2018
  • In an echo of what happened in Chile, Colombia saw a dramatic spike in traumatic ocular injuries.
    — Wil Sands, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Its water requirement is negligible, and its wedding gown, white blooms against a backdrop of deep green foliage, is an ocular delight.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
  • Granted, this is an ocular pat-down, not a metallurgical analysis.
    — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 12 Mar. 2026
  • In a strange twist of fate, Eichelberger found out a few months ago that her 7-year-old daughter has a form of ocular dystrophy that affects her eyesight.
    — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 19 Sep. 2022
  • There is currently no cure for ocular melanoma, and treatment typically involves the removal of the eye affected by the cancer.
    — Emily Price, Fortune, 1 May 2018
  • While most cases of rosacea display on the cheeks, nose and forehead, some people have a form called ocular rosacea, which causes inflammation, redness and dryness of the eyes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019

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