IN SIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in sight mean? 

• IN SIGHT (adjective)
  The adjective IN SIGHT has 1 sense:

1. at or within a reasonable distance for seeing

  Familiarity information: IN SIGHT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN SIGHT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At or within a reasonable distance for seeing

Context example:

kept the monkey in view

Similar:

seeable; visible (capable of being seen; or open to easy view)

 Context examples 

We must push on; we shall never feel happy till we get the launch in sight again.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Keeping us in sight?” said Ham.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You will be a virtual idea factory on this day, impressing everyone in sight.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I have promised that someone should watch for him and give him instant notice if any new object should appear in sight.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Topping the heathy down, they came of a sudden full in sight of the old sea-port—a cluster of houses, a trail of blue smoke, and a bristle of masts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the faint sound of his distant feet, before he came in sight, White Fang knew who was coming and began to bristle.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Such was her situation, with a vacant space at hand, when Captain Wentworth was again in sight.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

None of the great brutes were in sight.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To the best of his belief, the father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was following him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wherever the High Gable folk go he will keep them in sight.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)