How to Use line of sight in a Sentence

line of sight

noun phrase
  • This gets trail cameras out of the line of sight of deer and hunters alike.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Works best with a clear line of sight to the nearest cell tower.
    — Kara McGinley, USA Today, 24 June 2025
  • There just are not enough stars in the bubble to fill every line of sight.
    — Brian Jackson, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
  • That allows a pilot to fly the drones beyond their line of sight.
    — Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Tree lines also help break the line of sight for air defenses.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • Link 16 was only able to close a radio link with a clear line of sight.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Mike is really conscious of space and line of sight in all of his series.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2023
  • With a clear line of sight to a tower, some providers offer speeds up to 1 Gbps.
    — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Other goalies want a clear line of sight to the puck and would prefer to handle it themselves.
    — Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • There is a line of sight to a real inflection point that will take shares to the triple digits.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Trace that line of sight higher to find Venus, the most brilliant planet in the sky.
    — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Betts was well to the left of home plate, not in Hernandez’s direct line of sight.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • If there’s a clear line of sight (no obstructions) between the walkie-talkies, the reach will be farther.
    — Emily Isaacs, Parents, 14 June 2023
  • This choice makes those images that do stand in for Sasha’s line of sight all the more startling and forceful.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The issue is that a teenager and his father were in the line of sight of Seth’s photos.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The suspect didn’t fire any rounds and didn’t have a line of sight to Trump, authorities said.
    — Chantelle Lee, Time, 16 June 2025
  • Typically, a drone has to be in the line of sight of its operator.
    — Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Most problematic of all was the clear line of sight from the main salon into the master suite.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Buildings, trees and hills along the horizon will block your line of sight to the planets sitting lowest in the sky.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Maybe not always in the same line of sight together, but certainly all in play in my garden.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 July 2025
  • King even recalled a time her own dog, Oliver, crossed into the Queen's line of sight.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Second, there had to be a breakthrough technology that gave us line of sight to a new way to solve the problem.
    — Hans Peter Brondmo, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Jessa grabbed a table directly across with a clear line of sight and told me to notify her as soon as we were done.
    — Caitlin L. Chandler, The Dial, 6 Mar. 2025
  • This conjunction is merely a line of sight illusion.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Another option the report proposed is to ensure wind farms aren’t built in a radar’s line of sight.
    — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Unfortunately, the guard was standing on the floor and out of Nick’s line of sight.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The apparent change occurred when the blob of Charon peeked out Pluto’s line of sight.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
  • An absolute must for referees at corners is to have a line of sight to the goalkeeper.
    — Graham Scott, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • Those characters at the edges serve to show how vast the universe is, and how many stories are happening out of our line of sight.
    — Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
  • This enabled the helicopter to operate beyond line of sight and over the horizon.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026

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