bird's-eye
Example Sentences
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With his bird's-eye view of the contest, Vuletic says the contest will weather this controversy, as it has done many times before.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
For that reason, I suggest you enlist independent third-party help: a fee-only fiduciary who can give you a bird’s-eye view of your finances and who has no incentive to sell you another policy.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
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
On Sunday, the researchers started by launching a drone from the pitching deck of their boat to get a bird’s-eye view of the large, dark shapes meandering lazily through the surf zone.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025
“One might even call it a bird’s-eye view. The green meadow stretches out below like a carpet, and those little dots of white—is that edelweiss?—are like points of light.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
