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

You have a bird’s-eye view in some scenes.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025

At first, aircraft were used mainly to carry out reconnaissance flights, affording a bird’s-eye view of the battlefield and enemy positions.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman