Sentence examples for * at a sight from inspiring English sources

Hold the file horizontally and push it across the workpiece at a sight angle.

KIRKUK, Iraq — Sheik Habih Shawqi Hamakan peered through his binoculars on a recent afternoon at a sight he considers, despite the rising columns of black smoke that blot out the sun, pure beauty.

There are also the usual disorienting views, the mottled, hallucinatory walls and palpable floors that seem to speed away beneath our feet, an effect of looking motionlessly at a sight for too long.

A heavyset woman, Rachel Jackson had arrived in the city just in time for a series of victory balls, where high society marvelled at a sight described by one merchant as "the General, a long, haggard man, with limbs like a skeleton, and Madame la Generale, a short, fat dumpling, bobbing opposite each other" on the dance floor.

I never met the young man in my four-year college career, yet I found myself swarmed with a grief looking at a sight all too familiar.

You were the nine-car-pile-up-with-a-few-tragic-deaths and I was the passer by who should not be gawking, but how could I not gawk at a sight like that?

In the first movement especially, the Philharmonic sounded casual, as if it were at a sight-reading session.

Normally, I would have been pleased at such a sight.

"Let me ask any one of Anglo-Saxon blood and spirit, how would you expect a son to feel at such a sight?" he wrote.

Many have river views – or at least, a sight of the rebuilt concrete wall that now protects the Lower Ninth from any repeat storm surge.

The arrangement of entrances, Loudon writes, should be "so contrived that both cannot be seen at once", a sight that would destroy the illusion of a single dwelling.