Sample Sentences for

perspective

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

Also, try to see it from her perspective before you make up your mind.

The story is written from the student's perspective--which is very different than that of the teacher.

Starr offers a unique perspective in this, one you don't get a lot with these cases,  (source) Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, 2017

It changed my whole perspective on the Hunt for Halliday's Easter egg.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

I try to think about it from their perspectives.  (source) Gayle Forman, If I Stay, 2009

But my sense of Chris McCandless's intentions comes, too, from a more personal perspective.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

She lives in a world where all the old perspectives have altered.  (source) John Wyndham, The Chrysalids, 1955

The weapons give me an entirely new perspective on the Games. I know I have tough opponents left to face. But I am no longer merely prey that runs and hides or takes desperate measures.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

Blue said they wanted fresh new perspectives.†  (source) Tommy Orange, There There, 2018

Half of bravery is perspective. The first time I did this, it was one of the hardest things I had ever done. Now, preparing to jump off a moving train is nothing, because I have done more difficult things in the past few weeks than most people will in a lifetime.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

We wanted to create an online magazine that offered two (very) different perspectives on fashion, beauty, boys, books, life.†  (source) Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places, 2016

I was suffering then (and still do) from moods that kept my head under water (figuratively speaking) and allowed me to see things only from my own perspective, without calmly considering what the others — those whom I, with my mercurial temperament, had hurt or offended — had said, and then acting as they would have done.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

He took a sip of coffee and said, "I think I'm good at seeing wider perspectives, but mostly I'd like you to talk to me."†  (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

Attending a funeral helps me to put life into perspective and to separate the important things from those that are less important.

"Let's keep it in perspective," Hammond said.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007

Oh, I love mortals-they have absolutely no sense of perspective.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief, 2005

Although he castigated himself severely for this waste of a life he'd taken, a day later McCandless appeared to regain some perspective, for his journal notes, "henceforth will learn to accept my errors, however great they be."  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

To put it into perspective, the congressional district that included Beaufort covered the entire eastern part of the state-some twenty thousand square miles-and there wasn't a single town with more than twenty-five thousand people.  (source) Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember, 1999

Perspective was a luxury when your head was constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

And when he awoke, he looked upon the events of the previous day with more perspective.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

It had been Jack's idea to separate for a while — to get perspective on the relationship, he said.  (source) Stephen King, The Shining, 1977

The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.  (source) Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie, 1997

Michael and I decided to spend more time looking into the Pittman murder; we thought it might give us some perspective on the coercion that was leveled against Myers.  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

What I need is perspective.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

The artist intentionally breaks the rules of perspective.

Perspective made the long rows of machines seem almost to meet.  (source) Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, 1962

The columns, the fountain, the arches were all realized in perfect perspective to perfect proportion, with every ornament in place.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

She didn't see the photograph as a photograph; she didn't interpret distance and perspective.  (source) V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River, 1979

Ceylon floats on the Indian Ocean and holds its naive mountains, drawings of cassowary and boar who leap without perspective across imagined 'desertum' and plain.  (source) Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, 1982

The gray dusty truck, in the yard before the door, stood out magically in this light, in the overdrawn perspective of a stereopticon.  (source) John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939

And then Mother went away and I drew a picture of a bus using perspective so that I didn't think about the pain in my chest and it looked like this….  (source) Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, 2003

So too with art: we decided to agree that perspective—the set of tricks artists use to provide the illusion of depth—was a good thing and vital to painting.  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

A quarter of an hour later he stopped before a large cabin, adorned with several clusters of streamers, the exterior walls of which were designed to represent, in violent colours and without perspective, a company of jugglers.  (source) Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days, 1873

This occurred during the Renaissance in Europe, but when Western and Oriental art encountered each other in the1700s, Japanese artists and their audiences were serenely untroubled by the lack of perspective in their painting.  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

The clouds and turns in the trail continually change the magnificent perspectives while hiking in the mountains.

He tilts his head to look at himself from different angles, like there's some magic perspective inside the mirror that could change the dimensions of his face.  (source) R. J. Palacio, Wonder, 2012

During scenes that didn't involve my character, the simulation cut to a passive third-person perspective, and all I had to do was sit back and watch things play out, sort of like watching a cut scene in an old videogame.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

The perspective was close to the enemy planet now, as the ship hurtled into its well of gravity.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

Beneath the unclouded and mild azure sky, upon the fair face of the pleasant sea, wafted by the joyous breezes, that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives.  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

The beach stretched away before them in a gentle curve till perspective drew it into one with the forest; for the day was not advanced enough to be obscured by the shifting veils of mirage.  (source) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

The great glass over the mantelpiece, faced by the other great console glass at the opposite end of the room, increased and multiplied between them the brown Holland bag in which the chandelier hung, until you saw these brown Holland bags fading away in endless perspectives, and this apartment of Miss Osborne's seemed the centre of a system of drawing-rooms.  (source) William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848

His firsthand perspective on the plight of people wrongfully convicted was deeply meaningful to students, who often seemed overwhelmed by Walter's testimony.  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

The beach between the palm terrace and the water was a thin stick, endless apparently, for to Ralph's left the perspectives of palm and beach and water drew to a point at infinity; and always, almost visible, was the heat.  (source) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

Each of the rooms of the Metropol offered an entirely different perspective—one that was shaped not only by altitude and orientation, but by season and time of day.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

For we were so deep under the hill whereon it was set that the angle of perspective of the Carpathian mountains was far below it.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

"Sorry," he said, "but I never come by train and it all looks rather different from a Muggle perspective."  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003