PERSPECTIVE in a Sentence

Learn PERSPECTIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

40 example sentences for PERSPECTIVE, such as:

1. A fine perspective opened out before us.
2. Try to see the issue from a different perspective.
3. Her attitude lends a fresh perspective to the subject.
4. His father's death gave him a whole new perspective on life.
5. An open door afforded a perspective view of the Aged in bed.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERSPECTIVE
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perspective
 n.  appearance of things; view, outlook, or vista
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  An open door afforded a perspective view of the Aged in bed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLV
2  The Aged must have been stirring with the lark, for, glancing into the perspective of his bedroom, I observed that his bed was empty.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LV
3  As I could obtain a perspective view of Mr. Omer inside, smoking his pipe by the parlour door, I entered, and asked him how he was.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
4  There was a little green perspective of trellis-work and ivy at the side of our cottage, through which I could see, from the garden where I was walking, into the road before the house.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
5  But, on the other hand, directly she thought of the future with Vronsky, there arose before her a perspective of brilliant happiness; with Levin the future seemed misty.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 13
6  It was Rhett--Rhett who had strong arms to hold her, a broad chest to pillow her tired head, jeering laughter to pull her affairs into proper perspective.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
7  And with a bright nod to the couple on whom she had intruded, Miss Bart strolled through the glass doors and carried her rustling grace down the long perspective of the garden walk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
8  She was not hungry, and had meant to go without luncheon; but she was too tired to return home, and the long perspective of white tables showed alluringly through the windows.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
9  She hid her eyes with a shudder, beholding herself at the entrance of that ever-narrowing perspective down which she had seen Miss Silverton's dowdy figure take its despondent way.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
10  From her infancy, she had been surrounded with servants, who lived only to study her caprices; the idea that they had either feelings or rights had never dawned upon her, even in distant perspective.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  That day the perspective of the human race underwent a change.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
12  He caught glimpses of strange aspects; and, as he did not place them in proper perspective, he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS
13  These are conversations with abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON
14  He arranged in his own mind, with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, in the perspective of his revery.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
15  Open for me a bucolic perspective as far as you can see, beneath a marble colonnade.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Your life can be enhanced, and your happiness enriched, when you choose to change your perspective.
2  Travel and see the world; afterwards, you will be able to put your concerns in perspective.
3  Her attitude lends a fresh perspective to the subject.
4  Sometimes you need to look at life from a different perspective.
5  The particular sonnet I am about to examine, however, approaches the subject from a much different perspective.
6  A fine perspective opened out before us.
7  Recent events seem less serious when put into an international perspective.
8  Try to see the issue from a different perspective.
9  Moreover, Krimsky's perspective as a participant very much colours his account as an observer.
10  His experience abroad provides a wider perspective on the problem.
11  Classification, analysis, and substantive interpretation are all subject to the particular perspective of the researcher.
12  His father's death gave him a whole new perspective on life.
13  The strength of anthropology is its diversity of approach and perspective, unified by a common theme: the study of human variation and adaptability.
14  This requires an ability to manipulate perspective that would challenge most college students of geometry.
15  An essential fact that should put the debate in perspective is that Mary was released after less than four months.