How to Use vanishing point in a Sentence

vanishing point

noun
  • Trump would be racing to cash in before the value of his holdings reached the vanishing point.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The story acknowledges its collapse at this vanishing point, which is not a frontier of any type or variety.
    — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • In time the black trunks thinned, giving way to a delicate stand of birch trees, and oddly, a path that stretched to a vanishing point in each direction.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Last Supper contains perhaps the most famous vanishing point.
    — Longreads, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Together the vanishing points define the viewpoint of the observer.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Ours pointed out fluffy booby hatchlings in the low branches of trees on one motu, and showed us up close the massive coconut crabs whose kind is coming back from the vanishing point.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Historic Black communities in Fayetteville are down to the vanishing point, panelists were told.
    — Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 23 June 2023
  • The three meet in a vanishing point at the bottom edge as if a textbook illustration for Renaissance one-point perspective.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
  • These renderings can proceed in different ways, determined by the number of vanishing points employed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2023
  • On one side, shipping-container shapes speed toward a vanishing point; on another, a towering wall buckles like a volleyball net in the wind.
    — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The chamber of the United States House of Representatives has a vanishing point as well.
    — Paul Begala, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Apart from a few diagonals gesturing laconically toward a vanishing point, there’s no real attempt to create a sense of receding space.
    — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
  • By the time of Wallace’s death, in 1998, his influence over the electorate and the two major parties had dissipated to the vanishing point.
    — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Customers complained of vanishing points on their accounts, prompting the company to contact the Michigan State Police.
    — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Dack’s formidably original perspective and temperament seem formatted away to the vanishing point.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The result is a distracting jumble that reduces the stakes of the movie’s mighty showdown nearly to a vanishing point, and turns the title titans and their other colossal cohorts into the incredible shrinking monsters.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Occasionally, pinched between the natural elements, there were signs of civilization—dark blips along the horizon or dusty ribbons of road running poetically to a vanishing point.
    — Sarah Boxer, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022
  • This optical technique, perfected in 15th-century Italian visual art, arranged scenic images around a central vanishing point, creating the semblance of an infinitely receding space.
    — Joseph Cermatori, New York Times, 11 June 2021
  • The shot’s vantage foreshortens Susiraja’s reclining figure, exaggerating its proportions, rendering her bare legs and midsection mountainous while shrinking her head, which almost aligns with the composition’s vanishing point.
    — Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, 22 May 2022

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