in sight

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in sight - at or within a reasonable distance for seeing; "not a policeman in sight"; "kept the monkey in view"

seeable, visible - capable of being seen; or open to easy view; "a visible object"; "visible stars"; "mountains visible in the distance"; "a visible change of expression"; "visible files"

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gun-sight
gunsight
keen-sighted
out of sight
peep sight

quick-sighted
sharp-eyed
sight
sights

A ship may have left her port some time before; she may have been at sea, in the fullest sense of the phrase, for days; but, for all that, as long as the coast she was about to leave remained in sight, a southern-going ship of yesterday had not in the sailor's sense begun the enterprise of a passage.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

One by one, however, the ships managed to dip below the crests of the outlying hills until only one barely moving craft was in sight.

A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

When he did not discover me in sight within the valley he dashed, hissing into the rank vegetation of the swamp and that was the last I saw of him.

At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

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