How to Use within sight of (something) in a Sentence

within sight of (something)

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  • Set up a focal point within sight of your seat, says Jones-Quartey.
    Christina Sturdivant Sani, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The Ducks get within sight of the leaders, only to catch a flat, blow a gasket or roll over.
    Bill Oram, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
  • In the end, Nemtsov sacrificed more than that: He was murdered in 2015 within sight of the Kremlin.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 July 2023
  • There wasn’t another ship within sight of the port’s rolling hills and calm blue waters.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Simonides duly refused to board the ship, which sank, within sight of shore, with all souls aboard.
    A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The previous leader, Boris Nemtsov, was gunned down within sight of the Kremlin in 2015.
    The Editors, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Keynes was right that the economic problem ought by now to be solved, or within sight of being solved.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Stand and eat at the small communal table within sight of the iced display case, or at The Wandering Tortoise, the beer bar next door.
    Chris Malloy, Bon Appétit, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Inside the bar, patrons will find tables always within sight of the dozen’s of televisions around the building.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Gregor Miebach, who lives within sight of the building, heard shots and filmed a figure entering the building through a window.
    Pietro De Cristofaro and Geir Moulson, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • These town leaders can recount how the water pipeline was built to within sight of their village but then stopped, and now, when the rains dry up, so does the water in their faucets.
    USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • During the race itself, Wilcox was handily ahead of Miller's time, and practically within sight of the finish, when a line fell off the fuel pump.
    Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Creeping closer and closer to the front over the rainy streets of Westminster as the finish neared, Hassan pulled first within sight of the leaders and then onto their shoulders.
    Andrew Das, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Every time that happens, the mind wanders to the likely scene years ago, had the Dodgers manager walked out to the mound to ask Don Drysdale to hand him the ball with Drysdale within sight of a no-hitter.
    Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The building was destroyed by Russian missiles during the initial Russian advance, and is within sight of her decades-old apartment.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2024
  • It’s nevertheless become a sore spot in town not just for shore access — the popular town beach is within sight of Ocean Road — but for people who live on nearby streets.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • With plenty of land and a location within sight of the accident, Tradepoint readied those acres for the job of dividing the Key Bridge into small bits that can be taken away by trucks.
    Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Surrounded by snowy mountains and within sight of the Victoria Glacier, this lake is accessible after a 45-minute drive from the town of Banff, which also has its own ice rink at the train station.
    Raisa Bruner, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023
  • She was photographed in 1957 after winning her title in Las Vegas, that glow-in-the-desert city within sight of the even more incandescent nuclear testing grounds.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • There is no way of knowing how long the man had been dead, but investigators believe it was placed in the ditch, which was occasionally prone to flooding and not within sight of any houses.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 24 May 2023
  • Beginning in 2008 there was discussion in Washington and New York of selling the island, within sight of the Hamptons, for development.
    Hartford Courant, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Mielke, 67, is a fifth-generation Wisconsin farmer and sturgeon spearer who has lived within sight of Lake Winnebago his entire life.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Another protester deployed a large video screen displaying images of some of the most violent moments of the Capitol attack within sight of the news conference.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Giovanna exists literally and figuratively on a steep incline, her home within sight of a bridge that appears to go nowhere.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Depending on science priorities, the Perseverance rover will be repositioned within sight of the helicopter, a few hundred yards away, and take video of rotor blade tests.
    George Petras, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The attack was notable as the first battle between two fleets, using carrier aviation, without the ships coming within sight of one another, and inspired the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Planted in a sandy, thirsty field within sight of working telephone poles, the work raises questions about the vulnerabilities of human communication and belief systems.
    Jori Finkel, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Fishing for Sailfish Unlike marlin that require long runs, heavy fuel burns, and expensive tackle to catch in most locations, Atlantic and Pacific sailfish are usually hooked within sight of land.
    Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023

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