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
Only one small piece of the house remained: a brick fireplace with its chimney, situated near windows with bird’s-eye views of the Pacific Ocean below.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
"The bird's-eye view from drones gives us a huge boost in situational awareness," explained a spokesperson from the LFB.
From BBC • Aug. 13, 2025
A quantum computer, he says, has a bird’s-eye view of the same maze, which makes it easier to see the optimum pathway all at once.
From Science Magazine • May 30, 2024
It dawned on me that a clearer trajectory through this morass would consist of zooming in from a bird’s-eye view to increasingly microscopic components.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
