Sentence examples for a sight of one from inspiring English sources

It may be of interest on two levels: for book lovers who like to browse, and for management consultants who want a sight of one of the most legendarily disorganized businesses in the Western world.

I had gone to my publishers for some meeting or other, and caught sight of one on a table in the foyer.

She is good on (and honest about) the fear one often feels as a woman walking alone: the way a lone male can make the blood seem suddenly to fizz; the way that, on catching sight of one, a dozen tiny calculations must be made.

A disarming survey of his life by the author of the amazingly well-informed Jim Navajooe Leaphorn Navajo crime novels, who is not a Navajo, was for many years a newspaperman, and lost most of a foot and the sight of one eye in World War II.

Our reward for sitting in silence in a cold, dark, wet boat for an hour was the sight of one pair of eyes raised above the water.

Outside the tent, Sarah is diverted by the sight of one woman spanking another on a leash.

When I visited Pedernales, I saw that a Haitian family had erected tents and a small thatched house within sight of one park's main gate.

Similarly, research on blood-injection-injury-type-specific phobia clusters two fears different in their innateness: 1) an arguably ontogenetic memory-trace-overconsolidation-based fear (hospital phobia) and 2) a hardwired (innate) fear of the sight of one's blood or a sharp object penetrating one's skin.

Aides said the senator himself put a stop to those button after catching sight of one backstage at an event in Virginia.

This is a common observation among our group, a default fascination triggered by the sight of one's breath or the glare of the sun at night: Dude, we're above Canada.

For a series of dispatches from Iraq published in Slate in 2003-4, she wrote: "We caught sight of one woman, a wide-girthed matriarch covered in floaty black chiffon hijab, lacey down to her toes.