Noun: eyeshot
| Singular | eyeshot |
| Plural | eyeshots |
Sample Sentences
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He likes his mother to sit off by the side, though--out of eyeshot of the door. " [1991 July 26, Bonnie McGrath, “Ed Steiger Gives Great Party”, in Chicago Reader:]
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"We were alarmed," says Aimee Sordelli, who lives within eyeshot of the school's chimney. " [2004 July 23, Grant Pick, “Antenna Invasion”, in Chicago Reader:]
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Human waste, collected in “honey buckets” that many residents use for toilets, is often dumped within eyeshot in a village where no point is more than a five-minute walk from any other. [2007 May 27, William Yardley, “Victim of Climate Change, a Town Seeks a Lifeline”, in New York Times:]
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The woman smothered his instant fear with an eyeshot of horror. [1905, The Monthly Review, volume 19, page 101:]
Nouns inflected like eyeshot
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From eye + shot, on the pattern of earshot.