sight line
noun
: a line extending from an observer's eye to a viewed object or area (such as a stage)
a theater with excellent sight lines
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Pump up the sight lines to nature with extra windows.
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Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Mar. 2025
Billions of these stars over billions of years have choked the Milky Way with dust, filling it with opaque clouds, blocking our sight line and limiting our view.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2025
The compass can be adjusted so that players always know which direction the weather station is in, but this requires aligning it with the sight line in the lid and then manually shifting its dial so that north and a black line on the face overlay when it’s being pointed the right way.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
That evolving attention to sight lines around the sculptures plus his growing acumen as an artist led to more commissions and awards.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
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Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Mar. 2025
Billions of these stars over billions of years have choked the Milky Way with dust, filling it with opaque clouds, blocking our sight line and limiting our view.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2025
The compass can be adjusted so that players always know which direction the weather station is in, but this requires aligning it with the sight line in the lid and then manually shifting its dial so that north and a black line on the face overlay when it’s being pointed the right way.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
That evolving attention to sight lines around the sculptures plus his growing acumen as an artist led to more commissions and awards.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for sight line
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“Sight line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sight%20line. Accessed 8 Mar. 2025.
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