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on sight
Idioms and Phrases
Also, at sight . Immediately upon seeing, as in The soldiers threatened to shoot looters on sight , or He's able to multiply those three-digit figures at sight . [Second half of 1400s]Example Sentences
Black folks, and Black women especially, recognized certain homages on sight: the recurring suggestions of Yoruba deities, the purposeful insertion of certain Black stars in specific scenes, the tributes to mothers living and ancestral.
A curfew order has also been put in place in parts of Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades and Altadena, giving law enforcement the power to arrest anyone in the restricted areas on sight.
Wiltschko noted that George Eastman, of Kodak fame, introduced the quick and easy preservation of memories dependent on sight back in the 19th century, just as he hopes to do with olfaction here in the 21st.
We don’t see anyone in the dormitory die before the final moments of the episode, but it’s not looking too good for the defectors, seeing as those who tried to surrender to the guards in the pastel maze were shot on sight.
Maybe it's because after "Not Like Us" dropped, Drake's decades-long rap career was effectively considered dead on sight.
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