How to Use field of vision in a Sentence

field of vision

noun phrase
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  • This helped grant them a clear field of vision over the entire process.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • That helps lift the driver's eyes up and out, closer to their normal field of vision.
    — Joann Muller, Axios, 18 July 2024
  • Take an orange or something like it in your hand, and move it straight across your field of vision.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2010
  • That was a sea of people, stretching out beyond your field of vision.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Deyo learned the park gate through which Mya would have been seized is not in the field of vision of apartment security cameras.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The size of the field of vision depends on the size of your phone, but all users will have an immersive 360-degree experience.
    — Lauren Wellbank, Parents, 8 May 2024
  • Turkeys have a field of vision of almost 360 degrees, and their eyes can pick up movement about eight times faster than humans.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Every second, a new person in my field of vision, which is not a private field, but is instead a public park.
    — Devin Kelly, Longreads, 7 Mar. 2024
  • In the rare case that someone does damage their eyes, that damage usually shows up as a blurry spot in the field of vision, hours or up to a day after watching the eclipse.
    — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Unfortunately, about four months ago I was discovered to have a torn retina; for a while the floaters zoomed in my field of vision like fleeing birds.
    — The New York Times Elaine Chen Emily Anthes, New York Times, 18 May 2023
  • When the wire touched the patient’s retina and delivered a minuscule jolt of electric current, the man reported a spot of light in his pitch-black field of vision.
    — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Insects use a technique called optical flow, based on the apparent speed of objects passing by in their field of vision.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2016
  • Ergonomics To prevent eye or neck strain, center the content and select the optimal window size according to the user's field of vision.
    — Alex Kreger, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The person’s field of vision, however, may appear stable.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The idea of the new initiative, according to White, is to increase the field of vision of bus drivers, who may not see all of the pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists and others around them.
    — Matthew Dolan, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2023
  • The most common symptom of retinal detachment is sudden, painless vision loss, often described as a curtain-like shadow that moves across the field of vision.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But the compact displays of smartphones mean that your device may be outside your immediate field of vision despite being mounted on the dashboard.
    — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2023
  • There is, of course, the typical subtitle size toggle and visual options including a colorblind mode and field of vision options.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023
  • And even when the car is moving, front-seat passengers can stream movies, videos, and other audio/visual content on their screen, as the system automatically masks the display from the driver’s field of vision.
    — Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 26 July 2023
  • That's because there is a higher concentration of retinal ganglion cells in the center of their field of vision, making vision sharper and giving such dogs binocular depth vision.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2023
  • And as with the Meta Quest, a lot of the apps run as 2D applications in a 3D environment, meaning the apps themselves aren’t fully volumetric, but they’re projected into your field of vision with apparent depth.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Their ability to offer an expansive, bright field of vision has made LED headlight bulbs a favorite of drivers, especially those in rural areas.
    — Katherine Keeler, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
  • According to this explanation, the sequential nature of the flashes creates a sense of the flashes being a single object moving across a participant’s field of vision.
    — Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 27 June 2024
  • However, these specks in the field of vision, which may appear as cobwebs, spots, squiggly lines, or threads, can sometimes be caused by other severe eye conditions, such as retinal detachment, uveitis, or vitreous detachment.
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Turner, who grew up on Indy's northside, was diagnosed around four years ago with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disorder that slowly limits field of vision.
    — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2024

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