How to Use optician in a Sentence

optician

noun
  • Now opticians and optometrists are arguing over what to do with them.
    — Christian Buck, WIRED, 13 Aug. 1999
  • But her sister is an optician at a practice that has been harder hit by online sales.
    — Andy Marso, kansascity.com, 10 May 2017
  • Satisfied, Ja’karri handed the test frames back to the optician, hopped off the chair and went back to camp.
    — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
  • The optician goes back to the school about two weeks later to deliver and size the students’ new glasses.
    — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
  • Vedad works as an optician in the Castro and buys coffee from Starbucks four or five times a week.
    — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Some line items were provided for nominal prices or even free, in the case of optician services, for $0 per hour.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 24 June 2024
  • In the future, then, a visit to the opticians might also lead to a diagnosis about mental health.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • And that's when Mary Mccloskey, an optician in New Albany, stepped in.
    — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Herron was born in Newcastle, one of six children of an optician and a nursery-school teacher.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Earlier in the day, the male boar had injured a woman after entering an optician's.
    — Alexander Pearson, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2017
  • They are affixed to churches, hardware stores, historic landmarks, and an optician’s office.
    — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • Truffles, now famous for her glamorous glasses -- which range from sparkling purple ones to her favorite green pair -- works alongside her mom, an optician.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The glass is interchangeable, enabling an optician to change the lenses to your prescription.
    — Gregg Ellman, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
  • For this piece, Cai spoke with a licensed optician of 20 years and performed in-depth research of her own to inform this story.
    — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Some 4,000 of Walmart’s opticians will also be getting a raise.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 5 June 2023
  • The teenager said that people noticed there was an issue with her sight from age 4, but opticians recommended glasses.
    — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
  • As demand grows, opticians are retiring at a faster rate than roles are being replaced, contributing to a shortfall of workers.
    — Casey Mann, Arkansas Online, 1 July 2026
  • So does Burgos, an optician and part owner of a murder mystery theater company.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
  • These frames are sold with temporary lenses, allowing opticians to fit custom prescriptions.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • Back in Carmarthenshire my mother booked an emergency eye appointment with the local optician.
    — Jessica Phillips, refinery29.com, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Specsavers, which runs a chain of high-street opticians, now routinely offers the same sort of scans as Moorfields’ in half of its 800 branches.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The battery upgrade, Diaz explained, came from feedback from consumers, opticians and retail partners.
    — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
  • For them, Walmart provides not just food but a pharmacy, an optician, a money center, an auto center, and a mobile-services provider.
    — Brian Barrett, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2016
  • France, Italy and Germany delivered solid trends in both independent opticians and key accounts.
    — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 7 May 2026
  • In one big shopping mall near a border crossing, opticians and dental clinics promise cheaper service than Hong Kong that requires only a short trip.
    — Olivia Wang, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The unique glasses are then fit by expert opticians at one of the 13 Morgenthal Frederics boutiques across the country.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Spending time with the canvases helps bring the artist's hazy subject matter -- whether orange blossom, the house of a neighboring optician or clouds swirling in pale blue skies -- into sharper focus.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021
  • And sometimes opticians will be recycling them after eclipses, groups like Astronomers Without Borders.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Growing up as the son of an optician, Alex Feldman became familiar with optics and the craftsmanship behind eyewear at an early age.
    — Roxana Becerril, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Justine dragged him to the optician and he was fitted for his first pair of lenses on the Monday of the Houston Open, the week before the Masters.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 3 May 2018

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