Sentence examples for Upon sighting from inspiring English sources

Upon sighting the huge, steel-and-glass chateau-moderne Green Yard Hotel, I felt a pang of dismay.

Upon sighting the infernal labyrinth that guards the entrance to Wormhold Tower, it is Adelia who points out the sexual imagery of its secret parts.

Upon sighting the Italian ships, the Ottoman commander on the Avnillah sent out a launch under a flag of truce to communicate with the enemy.

Upon sighting Constellation at 12 30 p.m., Barreaut mistook the ship for a British corvette and began to flee toward the Dutch islands of Saba and Sint Eustatius to evade his assailant.

Upon sighting the destroyers, the British ships fired star shells to illuminate the area and turned to the south on a course parallel to that of the German ships.

Upon sighting the Japanese ships, Behars master, Captain Maurice Symonds, ordered that that his radio operator transmit the "RRR" code in order to notify other ships and Allied bases that the merchant ship was being attacked by surface raiders.

They are also largely diurnal and rely upon sight as their primary sense.

"We would be able to remove them from the area upon sight".

Other scenes depend upon sight gags that are witless as well as dramatically pointless.

The snout region was very short, and it is evident that these fishes relied to a large extent upon sight rather than smell.

"Last Year at Charlottenburg," I thought upon sight of the French garden out back, with its conic shrubbery and its stern, bare rectangles defined by pathways — timeless formality that preserves power in a state of eternal conspicuous splendor and eternal oblivion.