Sentence examples for saw a sight from inspiring English sources

1. "I saw a sight that will stay with me for the rest of my days.

Dr. Connelly examined him and saw a sight all too common in the mouths of his middle-aged male patients during this Great Recession.

But when I flung open the door and gazed into Rob's man cave, I saw a sight that I prayed could be unseen: Rob noodling on a guitar!

"As we got close to the Yankees complex, we saw a sight that we had not seen: long, long lines of fans going around the stadium waiting, in the rain.

The other day I saw a sight as culturally and artistically significant as, say, the Angel of the North spreading its rusty wings by the A1 or that long and oddly moving crack they sliced into the floor of Tate Modern a few years ago.

But the other day, as we were heading downtown in a cab on Park, we saw a sight near the corner of 86th St. that all at once humbled the avenue and the city: a small, solitary boy was seated at a small folding table in front of a monolithic apartment house, and on the table were a pitcher of lemonade, some cups, and a sign reading, "Cold Drinks 5 cents".

"I have been to the most famous museums in the world, and I have never seen a sight as striking as this," he said.

A delightful counterguide by a countertourist, who has visited the classic loci -- Paris, Bali, Rome, New Orleans -- without seeing a sight or snapping a picture.

I could have spent Friday doing nothing but soaking in Old San Juan's revelry, but I felt obliged to see a sight or two.

The New Yorker, January 19 , 1935P. 9 Occasionally, in country places, along the pike, one sees a sight which sets the blood going.

Instead, she had chosen — from what she must have considered an inadequate array of choices — to tell me that she had once seen a sight so extraordinary that she had become extraordinary by seeing it.