Sentence examples for lower your sights from inspiring English sources

Lower your sights.

The minute you go for the mass audience, you have to lower your sights".

If this is the case, it would be most ladylike and gracious to lower your sights and have a modest wedding as befits both your incomes.

But lower your sights and Minaya, the Montreal Expos' general manager, having virtually completed one of the most remarkable executive feats in baseball history, will be eager to chat with you.

Mrs Bourne also says that because Heidi's parents lack money ("One might presume they would have saved over the years for their daughters' marriages," she says snidely), "it would be most ladylike and gracious to lower your sights and have a modest wedding as befits both your incomes".

After she delivered her part in the bargain, how could we suddenly say, "Sorry, but time now to lower your sights, out of financial expediency".

Above the HVAC knobs sits the presets and radio knobs, so you only have to lower your line of sight from the road for an instant.

In Business 2.0, the Brazen Careerist column suggests that the reader "set your sights lower or you will be unemployed long after the unemployment checks stop coming".

She always remembers the response when she asked a careers adviser if she could one day become a counsellor: "Set your sights lower, Corynne".

You set your sights lower, take a deep exasperated sigh and roll over.

It does mean that if you think your chosen activity is truly beyond your means or ability, you should set your sights lower, or at least work up to it.