lost to view

Example Sentences

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Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2021

It is as though we are looking down on Earth from “one of the towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2018

In a moment she was lost to view beyond the curve of the low stone wall under the magnolia trees.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017

His impeccable liberal credentials on social affairs, economics, conservation are lost to view.

From Time Magazine Archive

Harry waved until the train had turned a corner and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were lost to view, then turned to see where the others had got to.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling