bird's-eye
Example Sentences
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He shifts effortlessly between bird’s-eye panoramas of battles and empires and close-up historical family dramas or images of himself rumbling along in a truck on dirt roads to visit the sites where things happened.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
J. janthina typically will have a darker violet hue on the top of their shell to make them blend in from a bird’s-eye view, Stajner said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025
Those sitting in the second tier and gallery had a breathtaking bird's-eye view of the action as Jonas hit the canvas in the ninth after a slip.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025
A quantum computer, he says, has a bird’s-eye view of the same maze, which makes it easier to see the optimum pathway all at once.
From Science Magazine • May 30, 2024
She steadies herself against the whorled bird’s-eye maple console table in our foyer, my parents’ first flea market find as a couple, years before they had me.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
