How to Use retina in a Sentence

retina

noun
  • The first instance is burned in my retina.
    — Emily Krauser, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Would the person then sense light on both sides of the retina?
    — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2018
  • This was around the same time that the retina thickened.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2026
  • Cells in the retina send signals to the brain via the optic nerve.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2018
  • In normal vision, light hits the retina at the back of the eye.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 24 May 2021
  • But why Poor’s retina, and not that of any of his colleagues?
    — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Plus, the retina display makes reading the screen at a glance easy.
    — Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2024
  • This was followed by genes for colour-sensing cone cells in the retina.
    — Charles Feigin / The Conversation, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The cornea's function is to focus light on the retina at the back of the eye.
    — Author: Roni Caryn Rabin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2018
  • The cornea’s function is to focus light on the retina at the back of the eye.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2018
  • These are the light-sensing cells that line your retina, the back part of your eyeball.
    — Mark D. Fairchild, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Birds have retinas that mostly lack blood vessels.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2026
  • Kingfishers streak over the streams, their paths traced on the retina in time-lapse turquoise.
    — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2017
  • With one swing, the suspect fractured his nose, tore his iris, and left a hole in his retina.
    — Rebecca Pryor, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
  • There are many different kinds of cells in the retina of a human eye.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The buckle will help to reattach the retina to the surface of the eye.
    — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The lens bends the light rays, focusing them to form an image on the retina.
    — Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
  • The pupils are the gateway to the light-sensitive retina at the back of the eye.
    — Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2025
  • They were then transferred to the trauma surgery wing and had to wait to see the retina fellow.
    — Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Part of it comes down to the color-detecting cells, called cones, in our retinas.
    — Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Two kinds of cells in your retinas, called rods and cones, are the basis of human vision.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2025
  • When the cornea is clouded or scarred, the pathway is blocked even if the retina itself is healthy.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • As the disease progressed, the rod cells around the edges of my retina would die, followed by the cones.
    — Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
  • The retina is a layer of light-sensitive tissue in the back of the eye.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2018
  • In the front of the eye, a lens brings images into focus onto the retina.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Light enters the front of the eye and is focused onto a structure at the back called the retina.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Come to think of it, the tendency may prove to be just like a floater obscuring the retina.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 14 Mar. 2017
  • The retina in his left eye ultimately failed.
    — Liz Szabo, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The retina is the light-detecting part of your eye that transmits those signals to the brain.
    — Jason Rossi, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But that is the image likely burned into Wild fans’ retinas.
    — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 14 May 2026

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