- present participle of sight.
sighting
Example Sentences
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The challenge of sighting puffins adds to their allure: Like Maine’s other photogenic wildlife icon, the moose, puffins are genetically wired to stay elusive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The change is dramatic: ship-based surveys in the region did not record a single humpback whale sighting there until 2006.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Eager cruise passengers zipping around New York's southern shores rush to the starboard bow: a humpback whale is up for air, a breathtaking sighting set against Manhattan's iconic skyline.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
She wasn’t about to bungle the sighting for her client, a photographer who’d flown to Africa for this exact moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The first sighting of the new rainbow-colored, curly-haired version of Didu knocks my aunt and uncle off balance.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
