Sentence examples for lacking sights from inspiring English sources

While the soldiers who operated the cannons (still lacking sights) were not proficient in handling them, an acceptable level of accuracy was achieved after practice shots into the Sea of Galilee.

A newborn kitten, while lacking sight, is thus no more "blind" than is a chair, nor is a baby "toothless".

Similarly, a person lacking sight or hearing can achieve aesthetic satisfaction by other means; a person with intellectual impairments can participate in activities structured to include individuals of varying cognitive skills.

It's not just that the weapon lacks sights, and therefore can only be pointed, and not aimed.

First, it adds the idea of a relation to a form (matter is in potency towards a form); second, it adds the idea that the form to which it is related is a form it lacks; finally, it implies that the form which matter lacks is a form it has the capacity to acquire, for as James explains, one does not say that a stone is in potency toward the power of sight merely because it lacks sight.

The 17th Infantry Brigade finally received its 3-inch mortars but found them lacking their sights.

Don't worry; they use their feelers to sense obstacles (lacking the sight to do so).

The Tottenham Hotspur forward had been industrious against Estonia but lacked clear sights of goal.

Thus, it is commonly said that Homer would be blind (that is, lack sight), even if Homer's blindness did not exist.

Built in the 1960's, the dorms lack clear sight lines and ample open space.

Limbo gave them a blissful destination, lacking only the sight of God.