8 sentences with 'sight'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sight and other words derived from it.
• « Moreover, he never lost sight of the ultimate goal: a machine that would be both the simplest and the most refined automobile ever built. »
• « There are many words and expressions that we all use, almost always with propriety, but whose origin we have lost sight of. »
• « At this point, the Athenians were on the defensive. The Spartans established a permanent garrison within sight of Athens itself. »
• « Subsequently, the Greeks as a whole were shocked in 371 BC when the polis of Thebes defeated the Spartans three times in open battle, symbolically marching in the sight of Sparta itself and destroying the myth of Spartan invincibility. »
• « In 1943, after the tide of the war had turned against Germany but long before the end was in sight, the "Big Three" leaders of Britain, the United States and the USSR met in Tehran to discuss the war and what would follow. There, Stalin insisted that the territory seized from Poland by the USSR in 1939 would remain in Soviet hands: Poland would thus be greatly reduced. Roosevelt and Churchill, well aware of the critical role played by Soviet troops at the time, were in no position to insist otherwise. »
• « In January 1945, when the end was finally in sight and Soviet forces already occupied most of Eastern Europe, Stalin stipulated that post-war governments in Eastern Europe would have to be "friendly" to the Soviet Union, an ambiguous term whose practical meaning suggested the dominance of communist parties. »
• « The post-war era began in the shadow of war and the fascist nightmare that preceded it; the British writer George Orwell noted that "since about 1930, the world has given no cause for optimism. There is nothing in sight but a welter of lies, cruelty, hatred and ignorance". »