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UK
/sˈaɪtɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈsaɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈsaɪtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
-
the act of observing
several sightings of enemy troops were reported
How To Use sighting In A Sentence
- Officials suspect three or four sub-adult male grizzlies are responsible for this year's sightings, having paddled and island-hopped their way westward from the B.C. mainland. Grizzly Bears Sighted On Vancouver Island
- Roughly a third of the way up the fence is a guard rail - again in orange - which provides a sighting line for the jockeys. Times, Sunday Times
- The whale calf is thought to have become separated from its mother in the lower Thames, where the sighting of another, larger bottlenose whale was reported.
- With the rollout of Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, continuing through the end of November (click here for screening locator), a classical music sighting is made that the famous 18th century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn would have been proud of. Laurence Vittes: Classical Music Media Sighting: Felix Mendelssohn Introduces Interview With Sandy Koufax
- But the most exciting sighting was a pod of pilot whales. The Sun
- Grimm leveled his confiscated weapon at the blue-clad human, sighting down its length.
- several sightings of enemy troops were reported
- The gunner virtually always sees the target directly through the gunsight or other sighting devices.
- This is the first sighting of this particularly rare bird in this country.
- Yet stories can coil around our snake sightings. The Times Literary Supplement