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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Open concept floor plans join the dining room, kitchen and living (great) room into a communal space where sight lines are maximized and walls are minimal.
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Metro Creative Services, Boston Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
The reduction allows the team to offer fans larger seats, more leg room and better sight lines.
—Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Pump up the sight lines to nature with extra windows.
—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
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Metro Creative Services, Boston Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
The reduction allows the team to offer fans larger seats, more leg room and better sight lines.
—Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Pump up the sight lines to nature with extra windows.
—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
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 22 Mar. 2025.
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