How to Use tunnel vision in a Sentence

tunnel vision

noun
  • His tunnel vision made sensible discussions on political issues nearly impossible.
  • And then game time is kind of tunnel vision.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • When asked about the dream her tunnel vision leads to, her smile gets big.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • You’re trapped in tunnel vision as the moon and Saturn clash.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 12 June 2025
  • Xavier can't get tunnel vision on one guy against the Bluejays.
    — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Jones is in his only second year, so the tunnel vision is part of his growing pains.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022
  • In the tunnel vision of his crisis, this meager amount seemed like the answer.
    — Paulette Perhach, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
  • In the past, we’ve been known to get tunnel vision and overanalyze things.
    — Thomas Smith, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Stay interested in the world around you, and avoid tunnel vision.
    — Arabella Delucco, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • But defenders of free speech mustn’t risk myopia or tunnel vision.
    — Myles McKnight, National Review, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Ajay’s instinct, to make his father proud, was turning to tunnel vision.
    — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 7 May 2026
  • The war gave me tunnel vision, and my novel was hidden in the dark periphery.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But Pomerantz also admits to a kind of tunnel vision on his own part.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
  • So that is the scary part, is that the confirmation bias and tunnel vision will just lead them to do nothing.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Andrews is a great weapon, but Huntley has tunnel vision when looking his way.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Colorful zig-zag lines flash in the corner of an eye, while the tunnel vision makes most of the view obscured.
    — Matthew Ponsford, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Nwora gets tunnel vision with the rock in his hands far too often and forgets his teammates exist.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Learn how to keep the tunnel vision going, knowing all the distractions are going to come.
    — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2018
  • The force pushes blood away from your eyes and brain, potentially giving you tunnel vision.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2019
  • What gets in our way are personal greed, power and tunnel vision (no pun intended).
    — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
  • In court, Zellner and her team argued that the detectives had tunnel vision.
    — Jenner Smith, ABC News, 7 May 2021
  • These can show up as shimmering spots, zig-zag lines, blind spots, tunnel vision, or even temporary blindness.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
  • His challengers have been wary about this second round, but Harvick has tunnel vision and is taking it one race at a time.
    — Jenna Fryer, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Sep. 2020
  • There’s also been plenty of judgment about his tunnel vision, over-dribbling, pick-and-roll reads and passing.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 14 July 2021
  • Also, both serve to ground their main heroes in reality when the get tunnel vision or their goals get a little too lofty.
    — Jeremy Harriot, The Root, 16 Oct. 2017
  • To focus only on the original product in the face of a changing market is a kind of tunnel vision.
    — Susan Naftulin, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • And competitive edge comes with tunnel vision.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Complete tunnel vision on the task at hand, which was holding the first day of Patriots training camp.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2019
  • Getting to and from the mountain can be the worst part of a ski trip in a typical winter (hello, tail-light tunnel vision).
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The class put on glasses with wavy lenses and circles in the center of the lenses to reproduce a sort of tunnel vision.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 1 July 2019

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