Sentence examples for had sighted from inspiring English sources

When she died, in 1999, her life list — that is, a tally of all the birds she had sighted since the first, a Blackburnian Warbler — had grown by the thousands: Snetsinger had sighted more birds than anyone in the world.

Nabokov was jubilant; earlier in the day, he had sighted a rare specimen he had been looking for.

I never saw any bears inside the park, though my companions had sighted three the previous week.

We returned to the airport building at dawn and heard that federal aircraft had sighted wreckage nearby.

He added that he had sighted Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher canoodling in one of them the other day.

Earlier that year, he had sighted an unknown part of the Antarctic coastline he called Terre Adelie, after his wife, and as such it remains on the map.

Frimpong could have sighted Wikipedia in his defence.

James Cook, who returned without having sighted the continent.

Some friends have sighted them, and "I've heard them singing".

Spanish explorers may have sighted some of the islands as early as the 16th century.

That one means it has sighted another predator, the crowned eagle.