Sentence examples for on sighting from inspiring English sources

On sighting land, he said, they would instinctively have turned north and found the Vinland farers.

He has a special dance that he does on sighting a fire engine.

"Considerin' there's a blizzard goin' on, there's a whole lot of fellows wanderin' around," Ruth says, on sighting Mannix.

Although he is dressed in a houndstooth suit from Huntsman that is as impeccable as his manners, I think Jeeves might have raised an eyebrow on sighting the red socks emerging from his louche Shipton & Heneage loafers with gold bar.

In Daddy Lost His Head (Cape £10.99), you don't know whether to laugh or squeal on sighting a chap in purple tie and yellow waistcoat with mournful children hanging about his legs – and without a head.

I get giddy around heights, and have to suppress existential panic on sighting the pinnacles of Am Fasarinen – a line of mouldy molars with plunging abysses on either side – but a calm head prevails.

Shoot-on-sight guards enforce curfew.

In 2000 Missouri adopted a shoot-on-sight policy with no restrictions on time or place.

The authorities responded with a two-day, shoot-on-sight curfew.

Protecting wildlife may ultimately resort to aggressive tactics such as shoot-on-sight policies [12].

Images were sampled with the Lightframe On-sight Keyspecies Investigation (LOKI) system [6].