an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
Used in a Sentence
sight
How to use sight in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for sight.
Editorial note
Did the work, but during that time, there was no sight of their money.
Examples10
Definitions9
Parts of speech2
Quick take
an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of sight gathered in one view.
anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
the ability to see; the visual faculty
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for sight.
noun
an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
noun
anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
noun
the ability to see; the visual faculty
See also: vision
noun
a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong"
noun
the range of vision; "out of sight of land"
See also: ken
noun
the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited"
noun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
See also: batch
verb
catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"
See also: spy
verb
take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
Example sentences
Did the work, but during that time, there was no sight of their money.
It's been over two months now of back-and-forth with Apple and Dun & Bradstreet, and the end is still not in sight.
This seems more like a case of someone so deep in a cause that they have lost sight of what the core idea of the cause is.
When a troop of rampaging soldiers cuts through your village and pillages everything in sight, you grab your cows and family and boogey out of there.
Touch social spending and the cool people will call you a heartless bastard who cackles at the sight of starving widows in between gulps of baby orphan blood.
The raw threads of personality that can be woven into another person get woven up into others and ourselves and tucked out of sight.
Not to put to fine a point on it, but if your user is on iOS or OS X, they are accustomed to losing sight of their progress because, as the article says, "Apple knows best.
Trusting one administration with a given power means trusting all future administrations, sight unseen, with that same power, and that is rarely a sane thing to do.
Backwards compatibility even with IE6, forwards compatibility with optimizations that haven't been invented yet and no 80s era blob+VM architecture in sight.
It turns out that prices aren't attached to individual flights, but rather are rules of the form "If the passenger goes from A to B on a Tuesday, the price is X, and it doesn't really matter what flights they take, as long as the total distance is less than 3 times the line of sight distance.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use sight in a sentence?
Did the work, but during that time, there was no sight of their money.
What does sight mean?
an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
What part of speech is sight?
sight is commonly used as noun, verb.