LOSE SIGHT OF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lose sight of mean? 

• LOSE SIGHT OF (verb)
  The verb LOSE SIGHT OF has 1 sense:

1. be no longer able to see

  Familiarity information: LOSE SIGHT OF used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOSE SIGHT OF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be no longer able to see

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

We lost sight of the tower as pulled out of the harbor

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Let us only find him safe and sound, and I’ll never lose sight of him until I see him in the ring.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’ve taken up the matter, and I won’t lose sight of it.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, in investigating this minor affair we must not lose sight of our main inquiry.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even Mrs. Harker seems to lose sight of her trouble for whole spells; it is only now and again, when something recalls it to her mind, that she thinks of her terrible scar.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But it seems to me you lose sight of beauty by being so practical, that you destroy beauty like the boys who catch butterflies and rub the down off their beautiful wings.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Often I had to lose sight of it on account of the tangled brush-wood, but I was always within earshot of its tinkle and splash.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sledge was still visible, nor did I again lose sight of it except at the moments when for a short time some ice-rock concealed it with its intervening crags.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The attendant thought it would be more useful to watch where he should go than to follow him, as he might lose sight of him whilst getting out of the building by the door.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)