bird's-eye

How To Use bird's-eye In A Sentence

• The map was a cartographer 's bird's-eye view, but the icy mountains unfolded white and hazy and shadowed, outlines blurred and overlapping. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
• The map was a cartographer's bird's-eye view, but the icy mountains unfolded white and hazy and shadowed, outlines blurred and overlapping. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
• Also called bird's-eye, it has naturalized and often grows in grassy or bare areas.
• But where O'Connor subjects her characters' actions to a rigorous moral investigation, Means tends either to pull back to a remote, bird's-eye view a favourite trope is to lay out a sort of mini-encyclopedia of possible interpretations of the event in question, as offered by professors, news commentators, and so on or, more commonly, to aestheticise it. The Spot by David Means – review
• For a bird's-eye view of the history of the idea of irrationalism in philosophy, two preliminary method - ological observations are in order. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• He discussed woods with him -- rosewood, mahogany, walnut, English oak, bird's-eye maple, and the manufactured effects such as ormolu, marquetry, and Boule, or buhl. The Financier, a novel
• Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps, and aero views, panoramic maps are nonphotographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Archive 2005-07-01
• The four new styles include collar and cuffs with the following designs: thin stripe, bird's-eye, racing and wide stripe.
• He once confessed to owning the prized possessions of a superb board of bird's-eye maple and Moluccan ebony, edged in sycamore, an 1871 boxwood and ebony Staunton set, plus a chess clock by Grant's of Stamford.
• a bird's-eye survey