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Sentence Examples A solar eclipse can only occur at conjunction, and the sighting of the new moon is typically not until 30 hours later. Whilst setting up, I noticed a Black Kite quartering the river and it was not until much later that I found out that this was a rare sighting. We stopped by a meandering path that led down to the waterside, and followed it barefoot to within good sighting range of the herd. The U.S. Army made the official announcement that the sighting and wreckage was a weather balloon. If a perpendicular measurement is impossible, the observer records radial distance and sighting angle. The first recorded sighting was by Galileo, who observed its conjunction with Jupiter in 1612 and mistook it for one of the Jovian moons. Then add a laser rangefinder to the hunter's kit to eliminate range estimation and sighting errors. She cast about anxiously for Alina and upon sighting her on the second story let out an earsplitting whinny. The museum's keeper of environmental records Colin Howes was delighted to discover that it was the first recorded sighting of them in Doncaster. My first sighting was of large numbers of pink-footed geese and wigeon along with some ringed plover and shelduck. At the present time, sighting a peregrine in East Anglia provides a red-letter day. We have the occasional sighting of a bluejay or a cardinal, but that doesn't make up for the lower class of birds who hang out in my yard. At the time of Gene's call, I had already been preparing to check out a lead on an ivory-bill sighting in Louisiana. If leap days were not added, the beginnings of months would soon not coincide with the first sighting of the lunar crescent. Three weeks later, on April 24, 1676, he discovered an incredible number of very little animalcules, marking the first sighting of bacteria. At one of these the anomaly was attended by a drop in temperature and an apparitional sighting by one of the investigators. You look like a cat sighting a bird, all aquiver with bloodlust. Cool your temper. The announcement of a humpback whale sighting meant just a quick step out the door for a look-see. Hand gestures to indicate the sighting of a hammerhead or a basking shark can easily be misunderstood if they are improvised at the last moment! He was in the bathroom, he said, when he noticed the red bead of an automatic weapon's sighting trained on him. Show More Sentences Inquires conducted at the time resulted in a sighting of a man, who was never traced but later eliminated from the investigation. More than 200 astronomy enthusiasts gathered at a Ribble Valley observatory for a rare sighting of the planet Mercury transiting the sun. He's the owner of a roadside stand in the middle of the Everglades, who seems involved in every sighting of Florida's Bigfoot in his area. The location of the sighting was on a creek bank just below fast moving water from a shoaly place in the creek. Practicing or sighting in on a public shooting range is a sure way to become very unpopular. The wheel placement, the relationship between pedals and seat, and the sighting of the instruments in the main binnacle were excellent. Air Force makes a whole host of add-on accessories including scopes, lights, lasers, bipods, night vision equipment and other sighting devices. With breeding time for pelicans due in October, the sighting of the birds has caused a flutter among bird-watchers. On sighting a pod of sperm whales, the Essex lowered her boats and gave pursuit. Since this bird finds a perfect camouflage in the evergreen forests, spotting or sighting it is near impossible. And they do look very small, especially when sighting down the barrel of a sixgun. Grimm leveled his confiscated weapon at the blue-clad human, sighting down its length. You can also check the alignment of the posts in one direction by sighting from one end of the row of posts to the other. A rare blind snake has been rediscovered in Madagascar a century after its last sighting. But what I did get was a superb sighting of four tysties, sitting on a ledge just a few yards away from me. The sighting of the week was undoubtedly, for a change, a rarity, as I went along to Loch Ruthven to see if the Slavonian grebes were back again. Police have asked anyone reporting a sighting of him to try and give as much detail as possible, even if it seems unimportant. The crows nest has become an ideal lookout post for sighting dolphins, whales, porpoises, seabirds and turtles. A father of two has broken his silence after keeping his sighting of a ghost 15 years ago at Woodville Halls Theatre a fearful secret. The first stamp shows a sailor sighting land from the masthead of the 1502 ship. Show More Sentences Close-fitting eye lenses are shaped to improve peripheral vision and are compatible with most optical sighting and night-vision devices. I chose instead to employ the vernier tang sight, and for me, this is the jewel of the No.2's sighting system. These customers favor sports bars that are big, loud, filled with monitors, and promise a sighting of an NBA star in person. This scene gives us our first sighting of Lord Summerisle as well as introducing the more carnal aspects of island life. Two weeks after Arnold's sighting, a US Air Force officer announced, straight-faced, that a flying saucer had been recovered in New Mexico. There is a variety of small mammals with an occasional sighting of the strandwolf. Also, I was most intrigued with this sighting because we saw it on a mountain at a city overlook where light pollution is highest. That makes chasing sunbows an uncertain pursuit, and the successful sighting of a sunbow all the more joyous an event. From spies in Venice comes a sighting of him swanking around on the Grand Canal. They had hotfooted it north in their hundreds to record the first sighting of a rare Snowy Egret on the Isle of Seil, near Oban. The engraving may represent a rare sighting of an ibex that had strayed from south-west Europe. There are no reports by any U.S. aircraft or any aircraft that we've been able to identify of any sighting of surface-to-air missile firings. The sighting of the black neck crane and several other rare and common birds in the area kept my spirit and interest buoyant. The most welcome sighting was our first Chipping Sparrow of the year, pictured to the right. However, a single excellent sighting of a male in full plumage singing in the sun is enough for us. We confirmed fledging by sighting fledglings, listening for fledgling begging calls, or sighting parents carrying food or scolding near the nest. Old footmarks and droppings were recorded in all the salines covered but no sighting or trumpeting heard. Later, on sighting another hostile scout, he engaged it and forced it down spinning and out of control. A number of intermediate instrument set-ups are selected, so that sighting distance for backsights and foresights are approximately equal. As I subscribe to the e-mail Fortean list compiled by Daev Walsh in Dublin, I received this report of a UFO sighting in my local town, Belfast. Show More Sentences This reporter happened upon a rare sighting of two crested serpent eagles circling together in the sky over the forest canopy. We saw a female gibberbird close to the bus, which was not as exciting as our previous gibberbird sighting. Speaking at the scene of the dig, the Detective said the witness had reported a sighting of both boys on the morning of their disappearance. The gunner virtually always sees the target directly through the gunsight or other sighting devices. The incident was sparked off at about noon by a sighting in Colchester of a prison escapee. Detectives leading the hunt for her killer said the sighting on August 13 may be unconnected but stressed it was vital they traced the mystery man. Users can share the location of the sighting and ship the report to public employees. Upon sighting the wreck, he also spotted three groups of survivors. The helicopter's weapon sighting system is the PKV collimating sight. The first sighting of the oarfish was an 18-footer that surprised a diver off Catalina Island. After a gap of three hours there was a further sighting of the men, all wearing trainers and T-shirts and two carrying rucksacks, at Baker Street station. And we've also got Indo-Pacific Hump-Backed Dolphin, and that sighting is the most southern distributed report on their range that has been reported so far. The guns raised in unison, the sighting of the game, the rounds of shots, the thud as a prey is felled, and then the silence. The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster dates from the 6th century when one of Saint Columba's monks had a narrow escape from its jaws. Like the old rifles, the rear sight bears a tiny nick of a sighting notch. Re-crewed and supplied by ocean-going tenders, the ships could pursue fish anywhere in the world for months on end without ever visiting a port or even sighting land. The whale calf is thought to have become separated from its mother in the lower Thames, where the sighting of another, larger bottlenose whale was reported. You should be sighting over your hand to the base of the tree and, without moving anything but your eye, sighting over the top of the stick to the top of the tree. Fascinated by what they had seen, the pair researched the sighting and believe it was the humming bird hawk-moth, otherwise known as Marcogloass stellatarum. Straining my eyes in the dazzling white-out, I excitedly make my first sighting in the distance, only to be informed it's a herd of cattle from a nearby ranch. Show More Sentences Last sighting was two days ago, of one who was dripping wet, sans towel and completely starkers, and talking very intensely on his mobile about ordering some ceramic tiles. Tuesday's incident follows last Sunday's sighting by the Philippine navy of four Chinese vessels and 10 smaller boats in various areas of the shoal. When we began filming at Elgon in February 2002, not a day went by without sighting a buffalo, bushbuck or waterbuck with a snare wrapped around its neck or foot. It's not exactly Vegas, but, Henry must well know, a sighting of the Royal Abs is likely to cause no little ripple interest. On sighting the allied fleet, Tourville held a conference with his officers. Owing to the calm conditions, it was not until after 11 am, five hours after first sighting each other, that the two fleets engaged. The German destroyers frustrated two attempts to enter the harbour, which left the fleet without sighting data and reliant on dead reckoning. The first confirmed sighting of mainland Antarctica cannot be accurately attributed to one single person. The first confirmed sighting of Antarctica can be narrowed down to the crews of ships captained by three individuals. It also requires space at the bow and stern not only for working but for sighting down the gunwale and chine lines to check they are fair. They set off on May, and on June discovered Bear Island and Spitsbergen, sighting its northwest coast. She's been visiting Greenland for 30 years and this is her first sighting of a bowhead whale. They paddle out, sighting a merganser family, and a beaver swimming near its lodge, warning them away with a loud slap splash from its tail. Tracy Shoer, a stylist at Bernadette's, confirmed that she too had seen the sighting. For non-Glass receiving citizens, a sighting is cause for excitement. She said the family had a confirmed sighting of Mrs Holt by a holidaymaker they believe came from Britain. The ORCA survey team was led by Brian Clasper, who along with Sophie Wild made the sighting from the boat. The ORCA survey team on board was led by Brian Clasper, who along with Sophie Wild made the sighting 600m off the starboard side of the ship. The remainder of the evening was uneventful, other than the sighting of a coati. Scott Kensington posted on the video description that his wife and sister filmed the UFO sighting while they were visiting New York City. Show More Sentences Eleven lucky tourists on a whale-watching trip made the rare sighting off the Hebridean island's north-east coast. Added to the fact an interception relied on visual sighting, a kill was most unlikely even in the conditions of a moonlit sky. There is apparently a fog, as the crew are unable to determine their latitude by sighting. The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas. On a sighting, other patrols at lower altitude would fly up to join the battle. Upon sighting a target, they would come together to attack en masse and overwhelm any escorting warships. Their effects can be mitigated by proper coloring, sighting and height alterations. There has been one confirmed sighting in the Southern Hemisphere, with a single bird seen south of New Zealand. Cook, however, failed to make any progress in sighting a Northwestern Passage. Two or three days after sighting this geographical feature, the treasure fleet would adjust their course to sail south of Dondra Head at Ceylon. By having the sunward sighting vane cast its shadow on the lower sighting vane, it was possible to align the instrument to the sun. Cabral chose him to return to Portugal after the sighting of the new world to let King Manuel I know of its existence. The first reported sighting of Tasmania by a European was on 24 November 1642 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who landed at today's Blackmans Bay. A sighting in February 2004 near Ubly was the first confirmed sighting in Michigan in 200 years. The sighting and video footage of the alleged big cat coincided with a spree of sheep killings in the same area. Often tax defaulters would take to their heels on sighting the tax collectors. But it also remains that a TimberBiel sighting is something that a wide swath of news organizations would be bound to pick up. A sense that the air, a sighting of muddy river, or that outcrop of rock so implacably bland in the light of midday, is undertowed by memory. The sighting system on this ersatz AKS-74U has been modified from the standard AK design. A recent UFO sighting experience has been shared on YouTube showing a mysterious black object moving over the Statue of Liberty in New York City. Show More Sentences A Montana man named Randy Lee Tenley was killed on Sunday while trying to hoax a Bigfoot sighting on a highway wearing a Ghillie suit. The sighting has thrilled some space enthusiasts because the object seen in the sky could still be a part of the 2014 Perseid meteor shower. These four paintings illustrate the first sighting, engagement, GUERRIERE's dismasting and finally her ultimate destruction in flames. Harbor porpoise sighting and stranding records compiled by Leatherwood et al. Your first sighting of a bee orchid can leave you feeling a little perplexed. Shortly after setting off I had my first sighting of a kingfisher while watching curlews, warblers, sand martins, mallard ducks and mute swans. Fixing their position and sighting land, they turned north and landed somewhere in the Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago, off East Africa and north of Sofala. All four of the Gassers possessed less than optimal sighting equipment, with the rear sight on the Montenegrin being so shallow as to make it almost nonexistent. The closest previous sighting of an Earth-grazing asteroid was in March of 1989. It was 330 feet in diameter and passed at 10 times the distance to the moon. Last year, the park was host to the first North American sighting of a red-legged honeycreeper, a dazzling blue nectar-eating bird from tropical America. The first undisputed sighting of the Pole was on May 12, 1926 by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his American sponsor Lincoln Ellsworth from the airship Norge. The precise first land sighting and landing point was San Salvador Island. It has been reported from northern Norway but that sighting is likely to be as a result of its having been carried along by the North Atlantic Current. In Florida, the Marine Resources Council maintains a volunteer sighting network to receive sighting information from the public and verify sightings with trained volunteers. Longitude can be calculated if the precise time of a sighting is known. Illustrations in the codices show that priests made astronomical observations using the naked eye, assisted by crossed sticks as a sighting device. They discovered Spitsbergen on 17 June, sighting its northwest coast. Ships in the Passage are often good platforms for the sighting of whales, dolphins and seabirds including giant petrels, other petrels, albatrosses and penguins. Most of the recordings are of inhabitants discussing their local industry, but one of the recordings, that at Skelmanthorpe in West Yorkshire, discussed a sighting of a ghost. She was saved from immediate sinking by the sighting of another German light cruiser, Ariadne, to which Beatty gave chase and again quickly overcame. Show More Sentences He eyed Norman, who was lifting one end of a four-by-two and sighting down it, as his Bendigo uncle had taught him to sight new beams, seeking out the bow. There will be a small prize for the first sighting of a seal. Stromlo Observatory in the Australian Capital Territory says spectra he took indicate that brightness peaked April 21, well before the first sighting. Many birdwatchers maintain a life list, that is, a list of all of the species they have seen in their life, usually with details about the sighting such as date and location. The thermometers have precise, narrow field of view and continuously focusable optics with through-the-lens sighting for accurate sample point selection. Owing to the ongoing complaints about the difficulty of sighting the light in fog, the lighthouse was abandoned in 1897 when the North and South Lundy lighthouses were built. Scientists from the Namibian Dolphin Project confirmed the whale's identity and thus provides the only sighting of this species in the Southern Hemisphere. Examples from Classical Literature Measure the angle CAX, either in degrees, with a protractor, or by sighting along a piece of paper and marking down the angle. The officer of the watch turned aside for a moment from the gyro across which he had been sighting. Consequently it was merely by a process of sighting that he could obtain the places of the stars. Before night he was not only dragging the chain, but was sighting the instrument. A bolt or machine screw was threaded 151 through the nut, so that its inner end pressed against the sighting rod. The undersheriff was on his way to town, but on sighting his superior among us, he halted and a conference ensued. Any oceanographic or bathymetric information obtainable at the time of sighting may be significant. A protractor may be used in the same manner by sighting along the top and using a plumb bob to record the angle. It is also fairly accurate to run a line at any angle to a given line by sighting along two pins stuck in a protractor. At daylight, however, sighting a balancelle ahead under a press of canvas, they had made sail in chase. Major Cavender had wheeled his guns into position, and was sighting them. Oto touched his cap and adjusted the sighting apparatus to his shoulder. Ron Val lifted a white face from the sighting 'scope of the negatron. The sighting was shelved by the original police looking for Moira, 11, for lack of evidence at the time. Experts are investigating the sighting of the oceanic whitetip which has never been seen off Britain. There are six species with an incidence greater than 1,000 that appear to be declining based on sighting frequency. Lieutenant Prescott was just finishing the sighting of the Gatling. They lack the fine adjustments and most of the features that target shooters get jazzed about, but they're actually half the sighting solution. The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head, still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin. The difference is that between sighting and bagging your game. Show More Sentences Only days after New Quay beach in Ceredigion was closed following a sighting of a blue shark, researchers spotted this thresher shark on the same stretch of coastline. The expedition dates reflect The Manta Trust's peak sighting predictions, based on the southwest current movements of plankton through the Baa and Ari Atolls. It can be used in combination with your existing pin sight or purchased with an integrated pin sight that makes the Hind Sight a complete sighting solution. 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What is the opposite of sighting? Words that rhyme with sighting What is the plural of sighting? What is the adverb for sighting? What is the adjective for sighting? What is the noun for sighting? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words sight for sore eyes sighter sighted sight Sighs sighs sightings sightless sightlessly sightlessness sightline sightlines 8-letter Words Starting With s si sig sigh sight sighti sightin