[
US
/ˈsaɪt/
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[ UK /sˈaɪt/ ]
[ UK /sˈaɪt/ ]
NOUN
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anything that is seen
they went to Paris to see the sights
he was a familiar sight on the television -
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
a batch of letters
a slew of journalists
a lot of money
a wad of money
it must have cost plenty
a deal of trouble
he made a mint on the stock market -
the range of vision
out of sight of land -
the act of looking or seeing or observing
he tried to get a better view of it
his survey of the battlefield was limited -
a range of mental vision
in his sight she could do no wrong - the ability to see; the visual faculty
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an instance of visual perception
the sight of his wife brought him back to reality
the train was an unexpected sight
VERB
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catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge - take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
How To Use sight In A Sentence
- The finishing line may be in sight but the final lap is shaping up to be an epic battle. Times, Sunday Times
- But a couple of months ago, in a Times Square studio, congas were pounding out Afro-Cuban rhythms, dancers in high heels were twirling to fast-paced mambos, and just about everyone in sight was a shade of brown.
- Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale. Country of the Blind
- Before anyone says that this was going to happen anyway, remember that political pros were saying two years ago that Napolitano was a one term fluke, early this year Republicans were salivating about a possible 2/3 majority House and Senate, and it took some foresight to see that a decent candidate could be recruited to take out J. Archive 2006-12-01
- Particulates and dust in Earth's atmosphere along the line of sight tend to absorb blue light more effectively than red light.
- ‘On the 18th, we were ‘invaded’ by a flock of over 100 mixed redwings, grackles, starlings, and cowbirds that ate everything in sight and emptied the bird bath in minutes!’
- This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight.
- My eye caught sight of the great key, _Pakenham's key_, lying there on the table. 54-40 or Fight
- My job was often actually throwing the dart out of sight, since they were hopeless at aiming. Times, Sunday Times
- Get an up close insight on the early song writing technics that produced several timeless Lynyrd Skynyrd Albums. Ronnie Van Zant Speaks « Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie
