sight line

noun

: a line extending from an observer's eye to a viewed object or area (such as a stage)

a theater with excellent sight lines

Examples of sight line in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For example, placing too many cameras without clear sight lines to security personnel, or installing LPRs in areas with low traffic, will limit the technology's effectiveness. —Bailey Quintrell, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025

However, Dad refuses to be in proximity, or even sight line, to my mom. —Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025

But, the Panthers kept Bobrovsky’s sight lines clear and kept the Oilers on their heels for the last eight minutes or so of the period. —David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 18 June 2025

For now, the home on New London Turnpike in Glastonbury is a work in progress, under construction on a two-plus acre parcel of land that offers expansive views of a nearby farm and has sight lines to a private pond on the neighboring property. —James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1753, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for sight line

• affine
• airline
• align
• aline
• assign
• baseline
• beamline
• benign
• bloodline
• bovine
• byline
• canine