VISTA in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for VISTA, such as:

1. A new vista was opened up to him.
2. The long vista is there for the seeing.
3. And now a new vista of peril opened before her.
4. This street offers a fine vista of the cathedral.
5. A favorite bay vista is from the point of Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill.

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 Meanings and Examples of VISTA
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vista
 n.  distant view , especially through an opening, as between buildings or trees; outlook
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  She saw a long vista of picnics by the bubbling waters of Peachtree Creek and barbecues at Stone Mountain, receptions and balls, afternoon danceables, buggy rides and Sunday-night buffet suppers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Scarlett, looking sorrowfully down the long vista of years to come, knew that she was the cause of a feud that would split the town and the family for generations.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
3  And now a new vista of peril opened before her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4  A vista of heavy oak rockers with leather seats, asleep in a dismal row.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  A town in California which had changed itself from the barren brick fronts and slatternly frame sheds of a Main Street to a way which led the eye down a vista of arcades and gardens.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  She turned her shoulder on him, stared through the back window, studying this typical center of a typical Main Street block, a vista hidden from casual strollers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  The man rolled them back; another vista lost itself in the darkness.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
8  Heyward took with him a blazing knot, which threw a dim light through the narrow vista of their new apartment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
9  He was certain that in this vista there lurked fierce-eyed hosts.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun-coloured doors.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
11  A new vista was opened up to him.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
12  Some way down the central vista was a little table of white metal, laid with what seemed a meal.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
13  His first wooing had been of the tempestuous order, and he looked back upon it as if through a long vista of years with a feeling of compassion blended with regret.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
14  Beyond this room there were three others, reaching the length of the house, to which you passed through three doors, opposite to each other, in the manner of a vista.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
15  In fact, adown the vista of the garden avenue, a number of persons were seen approaching towards the house.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
Example Sentence:
1  After a hard climb, we were rewarded by a picture-postcard vista of rolling hills under a deep blue summer sky.
2  This street offers a fine vista of the cathedral.
3  The long vista is there for the seeing.
4  A favorite bay vista is from the point of Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill.
5  The opening up of nearly thirty European countries to Chinese tour groups unlocks whole new vistas for the narrow but growing slice of the population with the disposable incomes to take advantage of it.
6  As leader, he opened up exciting vistas of global co-operation.