How To Use Vantage point In A Sentence

From my low vantage point I noticed the back bumper of a bus we were behind had inverted nails fixed to it, presumably to keep freeloaders from hitching a ride.
Otherwise, knotholers, who named their vantage point after the knotholes in old wooden outfield fences through which fans could sneak peeks, enforce their own unwritten code of conduct. Watching Baseball Through 'Knothole' Isn't Naughty When Giants Play
That vantage point also allowed him to depict in the foreground the community's schoolhouse, which was built in 1861 a short distance north of the church family.
From whatever vantage point, the views are panoramic and unobstructed. Times, Sunday Times
The villa is a former flax mill with a fantastic vantage point overlooking the town's medieval castle. Times, Sunday Times

But he was uninterrupted in his journey, eventually arriving at a vantage point near the Monument.
A favorite bay vista is from the vantage point of Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill. Keeping Reality at Bay
From a vantage point of twenty feet away they all crouched, watching the car, which appeared disinclined to burst into flame. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
Governments, enjoying the full powers of a sovereign Parliament, usually have a different vantage point from the opposition parties.
The cortège drove past the university, where hundreds of students and staff silently lined the pavements or watched from vantage points on surrounding buildings.
Two Gazelles will go out together and find vantage points from which to observe notional enemy positions.
From his vantage point on the 22nd floor he can see an awful lot of London.
The documentary contains a first-hand description of political life in Havana from the vantage point of a senior bureaucrat.
From our lofty vantage point, we could see the city spread out below us.
This is perfectly valid and appropriate advice from the vantage point of the canons of structured interviewing with its quest for standardization and for valid and reliable data.
From this vantage point, contemporary sport no longer seems a distinctively modern phenomenon. Times, Sunday Times
The orientation of those gravitationally bound pairs of galaxies should be completely random, as viewed from our vantage point within the solar system.
This, in turn, provides a helpful vantage point from which to understand the nature and task of theology.
It may also be a basic question of vantage point; the view of Boulevard du Temple is arguably the kind of multifarious photograph destined to be read like scattered small print.
I also climbed into the roof structures of the station and stood above the vaults to gain a high vantage point.
Instead of a single boss at the top, diversified multiproduct, multimarket, multinational companies count scores of “bosses” at strategic vantage points throughout the organization. Managing with Dual Strategies
From my vantage point, this is journalism's golden age - we just have a hard time detecting its luster because golden ages always shine more brightly from a distance.
From the isolated vantage point of his room he uses an old pair of opera glasses to spy on a young woman across the street.
So from my perspective the whole of what followed seemed to pass in a rather leisurely fashion from a comfortable vantage point behind a thick wall. Times, Sunday Times
The documentary contains a first-hand description of political life in Havana from the vantage point of a senior bureaucrat.
Whether this is good or bad or neither depends on your vantage point. Times, Sunday Times
The photographer's vantage point was Lisbon's 100 foot high Cristo Rei monument on the south bank of the Tagus , at the foot of the port city's other famous bridge, the Ponte 25 de Abril.
Tall trees within hedgerows are used by birds as song posts, nest sites and vantage points.
LAVANDERA: ... we mentioned, in this parking lot has been kind of cordoned off from us but you know, from the vantage point here, you can just see ... CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2008
From this vantage point for the Democratic caucus to ostracize anyone connected to the Illinois Statehouse is the ultimate in venality and hubris. The Early Word: What’s Next in Illinois? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
So from my perspective the whole of what followed seemed to pass in a rather leisurely fashion from a comfortable vantage point behind a thick wall. Times, Sunday Times
Right through the summer, Jeremy would stand at the top of a tall wooden ladder in those boxy, airless rooms in the Leeper building, wearing, I recall, comparatively tight-fitting shorts, while I did my best to read off the shelf lists (meaning drawers densely laden with cards), performing this function from as advantageously configured a vantage point below. The Earth Goddess
He was conducting, not playing; I was in an awkward seat row C orch, far audience left, a bad vantage point for hearing the soloist well, and he sounded no better than decent. Archive 2009-04-01
From my third floor vantage point, I could see a young would-be car thief trying to hot-wire an old van that I had not seen move in over a year.
The images are very crisp and detailed in close-ups, but turn mushy soft in some of the long shots that take in the whole stage from the vantage point of the nosebleed seats.
She took refuge behind an angel's wings and, from this vantage point, spied upon her family.
While the characters and other objects float and collide, our vantage point swoops around them. Times, Sunday Times
From the roadside vantage points we had stunning views of McKinley's commanding summit bathed in alpenglow and reflected in Wonder Lake.
Its hilltop position would give loyalist troops a vantage point over rebel areas. Times, Sunday Times
From today's vantage point, the 1987 crash seems just a blip in the upward progress of the market.
If she could not do anything to help here, what could she possibly do from a vantage point thousands of leagues distant?
It is a high vantage point overlooking the town, a place where a murderous diabolist could hide from the implacable huntress on his trail and from which he can watch and direct his unliving army.
From my vantage point on the hill, I could see the whole procession.
Timeline: Walter Cronkite’s Life and Career The trouble began when the moderator asked Jennings what he would do if, during a war between the U.S. and another country, he’d been given the chance to travel with the enemy and report from behind his lines — only to discover, from this vantage point, that the enemy was about to spring a trap and mow the Americans down. Ghosts of Broadcast Journalism Past
He climbed railings near the front of the building and, from a concealed vantage point, he saw a car arrive. The Bullet Catchers
One of the beauties of adult life is no longer having to be answerable to others in the way that we are when we're younger, and another is enjoying the vantage point of the outsider once it's stripped of its socially demeaning cachet.
For decades, the consensus was that as children begin reasoning about the biological world, they adopt only one -- markedly "anthropocentric" -- vantage point, favoring humans over non-human animals when it comes to learning about properties of animals. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
A few years back, over strenuous public protests, that vantage point was overtaken. Smithsonian Mag
Now I had to admit that we watched this spectacle from a safe vantage point behind the baked beans aisle.
The ending footage is an artistic expression of the subtext that the enemy, looked down from a vantage point, are squashed like roaches under the snooperscope in a detached, game way, as if they were sub-human.
Back at the anchor vantage point, I met a dreamy-eyed tramp-like man of about fifty.
From our vantage point, at the northernmost edge of the storms, the view was phenomenal.
If that seems like an exaggeration from the safer vantage point provided by the perspective of eighteen months, it certainly felt that way at the time. Times, Sunday Times
From such a vantage point you can scan up to a mile along many beaches and spot objects cast up by the tides.
Well armed with our white Rio 2009 vests, white capris, litre of voddy, guarana drink, two bottles of champers, coloured accessory for what you wish for most next year (red / passion for me, blue / peace for Chris), and our equally prepared comrades-in-celebration from the hostel, we explored the beach for a good vantage point. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
From the same vantage point, the hotel's swimming pools are on full view. The Sun
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From my vantage point on the hill, I could see the whole procession.
Viewed from a contemporary design vantage point, the images represent an interesting study in contrasts.
Just next door, the best people-watching vantage point is on the deck terrace of the new La Scena Bar at the Palais St phanie (hotel-palais-stephanie-cannes. com), where "le Tout-Cannes," or everybody who is anybody, swills watermelon or fresh cucumber Mojitos at sunset. Cannes's Gastronomic Glitz
Hermanus east of here is a prime vantage point to watch the whales at their cavortings. ANC Daily News Briefing
Sadly, most people were caught in a mobile crush as crowds massed from one possible vantage point to another in search of York's secret firework display.
A few years back, over strenuous public protests, that vantage point was overtaken. Smithsonian Mag
Unlike many others, Church was not content to depict the Falls from one or two vantage points.
Anne prefers to survey the garden from a vantage point under the mango trees, overlooking the dam.
From my vantage point in goal, the entire company were either charging towards you or hurtling away. Times, Sunday Times
There are signposted vantage points on the way which give splendid views showing how the Ice Ages carved and shaped the landscape.
From the more bucolic vantage point of farm sanctuaries, he examined the behaviour of pigs, cows, goats, sheep and fowl and found that their tenderness, affection and social interaction gave them a level of sympathy he found surprising.
These outlets have sprung up at virtually every vantage point in the city and suburbs.
From my vantage point I had a full view as he entered the room and began constructing a complex mesh of bent wire and mirrors from pieces in a paper bag.
Their most ardent devotees had arrived three hours before the band took the stage, and outside, the more adventurous ticketless followers attempted to eke out treetop vantage points, to no avail.
His new companion looked great but from my vantage point I could see the grey roots of her dyed hair.
From the vantage point of the bench, we can see in the center quatrefoil that each semi-circle contains a Calluna vulgaris ‘Sunset’. Foliage? In January? « Fairegarden
Bakhtin's architectonics is a temporary, contingent vantage point not lending itself to systematization, and thus the victory is temporary as well.
From this vantage point he watched, his searching eye never missing a detail.
In essence the vast majority of what we digest from the media comes from a white male vantage point. Dexter Rogers: Why is Michael Vick the Most Hated Athlete in Sports?
While the characters and other objects float and collide, our vantage point swoops around them. Times, Sunday Times
The fireworks looked excellent from our vantage point in the Castle Terrace car park.
From her vantage point, however, Em was only given a view of the drunken brawl, which had deteriorated into a hissy fight.
From her vantage point inside the doorway, Lily saw Mrs Arbuthnot open the front door and slam it after her.
From my vantage point, Obama has the "cleanest" path to the nomination. Hillary Challenging Obama To Free-Form Debates
On the other hand, the deep, rich Clear Blue #1 seems at first a pure monochrome; on closer view, varnishlike swirls of wax can be seen as they catch light from certain vantage points.
Unlike many others, Church was not content to depict the Falls from one or two vantage points.
Often losing sight of its prey, Portia spends twenty minutes detouring through the foliage to reach the optimal vantage point.
Data collection took place primarily on an opportunistic basis, typically on-board ice-breakers, naval tankers, cargo ships and other vessels, or from coastal vantage points.
From a vantage point, the charging bull creating space by dispersing the crowd ahead of it, and the chasers closing the gap behind it, is a spectacle.
But we in Britain can count ourselves lucky to be watching this drama from a safe vantage point outside the eurozone. Times, Sunday Times
Matters are made more ominous by the fact that, in the novel's opening chapter, Lowry introduces us to these main events from the retrospective vantage point of November 1939.
The fireworks looked excellent from our vantage point in the Castle Terrace car park.
The documentary contains a first-hand description of political life in Havana from the vantage point of a senior bureaucrat.
Armed with a book and ostensibly reading, I had found a good vantage point, as I could monitor the streams of people from both directions.
The director's favourite vantage point is that of a god who is cruelly indifferent to our individual fates.
From this vantage point I could see a bald patch half-concealed by thick black hair. TOY SHOP
It was the perfect vantage point for her to watch both the entrance to the hotel and the off-ramp leading from its car park. CODE BREAKER
While the characters and other objects float and collide, our vantage point swoops around them. Times, Sunday Times
For a view of the hawala system from the vantage point of a diaspora hawaladar, see S.M. Hanifi (2006), wherein citations to additional hawala literature can be found. back Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
There are spots on the drive where one gets to view both sides of the ranges from overlooks located at vantage points.
And although his commitment to fox-hunting seems repellent from this vantage point, his espousal of organic farming is a much more meaningful commitment to animal welfare than any hunt saboteur ever made.
From a concealed vantage point, he saw a car arrive.
From this vantage point, the unfolding of life can be viewed as a tapestry in which every new thread is contingent upon the nature, timing, and interweaving of virtually all previous threads.
I'll ramble on and on until I find some enlightenment, or a new vantage point to see the arguments.
But from the vantage point of 2021, such optimism seems almost incomprehensible. Times, Sunday Times
From her piggyback vantage point she heard dry reeds whisper and water splash.
The splendidly schematized figure is shown from a vantage point that allows the contour of his right arm to reinforce the silhouette of the tall Attic stele behind.
Attaining some distance from the social world and thinking about its transformation from that vantage point may be useful, even if return to life within this social world, or some successor of it, seems ethically and practically exigent.
Sometimes Behrens recalls these stories from the vantage point of the monastic cloister.
They wanted to see greenery and flowers from these vantage points, not pavement and cars.
From their vantage point behind the bulky transformer case he could see three men absorbedly regarding a large videoscreen. Archive 2009-03-01
HARRIS: And with that, you see there the door closing on the final set of remains to be taken off of this C-17, carrying this somber and sad cargo from Afghanistan to Ramstein airbase, which is where our Matthew Chance has been standing by at post watching all of this from vantage point of just being a few yards away -- Matthew. CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2002
Archer's chiding words still lingered in his mind, and, moreover, without the glass he could do nothing for he certainly would never have thought of entering Norne without first "piking" it from a safe vantage point. Tom Slade with the Boys Over There
Six inflatables, seven feet tall, will go to town attracting people in all the shopping malls of the twin cities, while every inch of prime space available in vantage points will be taken up.
From an unthreatening vantage point we watched a valleyful of sheep - a total of 19, all ewes and lambs and yearling males.
From my vantage point on the hill, I could see the whole procession.
My vantage point helps me remember what carefree innocence and lack of responsibility look like. Christianity Today
Regardless, Zhu's speech provided a fascinating vantage point on the corruption problem facing the Communist Party.
Shooting from a high vantage point and tilting the camera down so it is more parallel to the plane of the foreground also helps extend the range of sharp focus.
Both of these types are plentiful on the Cape, as are sea ducks, such as scoters and eiders, viewable from many vantage points.
From my vantage point in goal, the entire company were either charging towards you or hurtling away. Times, Sunday Times
From her vantage point she could see the entire street in front of the apartment complex.
It is thought they fired on the cars from a secret vantage point on nearby hills.
The tears come because one suddenly realises that, in demystifying the belief systems in this inexorable process of enquiry, one's own vantage point is no less prone to attack.
Because many places along the border were inaccessible to jeeps, troopers frequently had to dismount and walk or crawl to appropriate vantage points.
But from the vantage point of 2021, such optimism seems almost incomprehensible. Times, Sunday Times
The whole dispute looked silly from my vantage point.
But from this vantage point along the axis of the mall, Independence Hall is visually overwhelmed by much larger buildings in the distance.
From his vantage point up in the thorny branches, Lena resembled a bird-watcher at a nudist ranch. Three Stages of Amazement
Doubts are her metier; oblique vantage points are her preferred location from which to survey the human landscape.
Regardless, Zhu's speech provided a fascinating vantage point on the corruption problem facing the Communist Party.
From the vantage point of the twenty-first century, it is fascinating to watch the rapid innovations in science and technology overtake their fictional anticipation and to return to our most speculative and fantastical literature to see how perceptively it anticipated the social and geopolitical transformations — and challenges — these innovations would inspire. Final Deadline Approaching: ‘American Literature’ Special Issue on SF, Fantasy, and Myth « Gerry Canavan
The building porter saw what was going on outside from his vantage point in the lobby, saw my little hand at the open fourth floor window, chased up the stairs and gave me huge telling-off.
She looked virtually the same as when I'd last seen her, though perhaps a closer vantage point would have let me see more wrinkles and lines.
This nameless neighborhood is a haunt of the stylish, and people-watching vantage points range from teahouses and corner fruit stands (sample some pomelo or other local produce) to hip lounge bars like 2046. After Hours: Taipei
Situated on a high knoll - Black Craig - it was clearly an excellent defensive vantage point providing views over the surrounding countryside.
From his vantage point, Kheda could clearly see a heap of quilts were tossed all anyhow on a narrow bed.
The top of Blake Street was a wonderful vantage point for watching the many parades, processions and military tattoos that regularly took to the streets.
From my vantage point and with the sun on my back I watched the goings on in the garden.
As spectators, Geough's informants occupy so many god-like vantage points throughout the course of the saga that it is difficult to conceive of them actually having been in any particular one of them.
We watched on TV from a helicopter vantage point, as a caravan of five fire trucks lumbered up the vacant, closed-down interstate to battle the blaze.
It all depends on your vantage point. Times, Sunday Times
He parked across somebody's garage entrance and barrelled up the street to his nephew's vantage point. THE LAST TEMPTATION
From a high dune vantage point one can only look in awe at the purple dappled carpet spread out below.
Given the vantage point of 35 years, LeWitt's art scarcely seems emotionally dry.
Before him, towering from Murphy's vantage point, stood a hapless young man clad head to toe in coffee-stained thrift-store seersucker.
It was a good vantage point to put Britain's financial and political travails into perspective. Times, Sunday Times
Everyone scrambled and jostled for a vantage point to watch the creature investigate the berley, which led it here.
Benson climbed up on to a hotplate in the kitchen and began shooting a unique set of pictures from this vantage point.
Here, photographers can get vantage points to compose shots of elephants, rhinos, cheetahs, hyenas, gazelles and waterbucks.
Thinking one might lead to a vantage point unscreened by greenery, where I could get a good look at the geography of our new home, I struck out along one of the paths, towards the sinking sun.
Its height above water level gives Mike, the captain, a perfect vantage point from which to scan the water for dorsal fins breaking the surface.
Whereas autobiography may present a fictive vantage point to reflect upon the past, a film or video diary provides ‘a series of discontinuous presents’ as P. Adams Sitney suggested.
from that vantage point he could survey the whole valley
It was a good vantage point to put Britain's financial and political travails into perspective. Times, Sunday Times
Viewed from this vantage point, the church sits at the far corner of the square.
But he also finds other vantage points from which to gaze at the heaving muck of New York, most memorably Manhattan's municipal courthouse.
He cried silently, a long time, till, as if suddenly bethinking himself, he sat down in the snow with much creaking and crackling of his joints, and from this low vantage point toppled sidewise and fainted calmly and easily away. LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
Surely there was one vantage point in the entire zoo from which the camera crew could have filmed without being in mortal peril? Times, Sunday Times
From his vantage point close to the town of Orgiva in the Andalusian mountains, Stewart has seen a huge inpouring of Britons.
Becker reached advantage point several times before losing the game.
The only thing that surprised me bearing in mind the previous night's tales was that I couldn't hear the wildlife crashing around in the trees as they tussled for a vantage point from which to ambush me.
So, when Pitbull's "Hotel Room Service" is hilariously yet rightly paired with Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough," 20-somethings and 30 and 40-somethings arrive at the idea of what's augmenting what from different vantage points, but there's a universal recognition among those at the show that the pairing works, gaining a multiplicative effect as a result of their convergence. Phil West: Collage, Alchemy, and Glowsticks: A Night With Girl Talk
While the characters and other objects float and collide, our vantage point swoops around them. Times, Sunday Times
From our vantage point, we could see men walking the streets, men on top of buildings, scanning the area with binoculars.
The thousands of walkers in Pattaya received an enthusiastic reception from the crowds that thronged the sidewalks and packed the vantage points.
But this guy was sort of dead and alive at the same time, so he got to speak to us from this unique vantage point. Times, Sunday Times
Here, photographers can get vantage points to compose shots of elephants, rhinos, cheetahs, hyenas, gazelles and waterbucks.
Regardless, Zhu's speech provided a fascinating vantage point on the corruption problem facing the Communist Party.
If that guy had actually run up my ass and killed me dead he would have not only not been punished for his miscreance but he would have been back behind the wheel within a week while I fed the worms from my new vantage point six feet under. On Life and Death and Ego
The villa is a former flax mill with a fantastic vantage point overlooking the town 's medieval castle. Times, Sunday Times
They bring out dish after dish and it's a good vantage point to gauge what you want to eat - all of it outstanding. The Sun
From a concealed vantage point, he saw a car arrive.
From my vantage point a lot of the criticism she seems to be getting is from self-inflicted wounds. Times, Sunday Times
From the vantage point of the late 20th century, the war seems to have achieved nothing.
The hillock did, indeed, provide a good vantage point as we watched the colourful parade of racing cars haring around the corner in front of us.
Away in smoke go the lordships, the Rabbi-hoods of the world, and the man who acquiesces in the burning is saved by the fire; for it has destroyed the destructible, which is the vantage point of the deathly, which would destroy both body and soul in hell. Unspoken Sermons Series One
I thought I'd get out and view some more of the capital from the best vantage point of all, the top deck of a London bus.
It's certainly a different vantage point, certainly a lot closer. Times, Sunday Times
From our lofty vantage point, we could see the city spread out below us.
From today's vantage point, the 1987 crash seems just a blip in the upward progress of the market.
Many people have extolled the extraordinary and stunning views from this vantage point.
He is known for braving snow and rain to produce his work, but tiring of the recent bad weather he is also looking for some snug vantage points.
A few years back, over strenuous public protests, that vantage point was overtaken. Smithsonian Mag
From my vantage point, I quickly came to the conclusion that bad journalism was dooming the business of Internet content.
From my vantage point, this is journalism's golden age - we just have a hard time detecting its luster because golden ages always shine more brightly from a distance.

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