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IN SIGHT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At or within a reasonable distance for seeing
Example:
kept the monkey in view
Classified under:
Similar:
seeable; visible (capable of being seen; or open to easy view)
Context examples:
Just then the noise of horses topped the rise, and four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight and swept at full gallop down the slope.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
As he went lazily on, dragging one foot after another, a man came in sight, trotting gaily along on a capital horse.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The Klondiker's face took on a contemptuous expression as he said finally, "I reckon there's nothin' in sight to prevent me takin' the dog right here an' now."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I shall have to do a deal of traveling before I come in sight of your Celestial City.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
On a frosty winter afternoon, I rode in sight of Thornfield Hall.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Spruce twigs are an important winter food for snowshoe hares; when the hares can get at them, these herbivores may nibble every branch in sight.
(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)
We could hear a sound like the waves upon the beach, long before we came in sight of that mighty multitude, and then at last, on a sudden dip of the road, we saw it lying before us, a whirlpool of humanity with an open vortex in the centre.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The lane made a slight bend; and when that bend was passed, Mr. Elton was immediately in sight; and so near as to give Emma time only to say farther, Ah! Harriet, here comes a very sudden trial of our stability in good thoughts.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
His was deliberate creative genius, and, before he began a story or poem, the thing itself was already alive in his brain, with the end in sight and the means of realizing that end in his conscious possession.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The clock was striking one as I was in the Crescent, and there was not a soul in sight.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
