at the sight of

idiom

: upon seeing
He faints at the sight of blood.

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And just as her onscreen character freaked out at the sight of a lizard in her room, Rothwell did not react calmly in the moment. Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025 Amusingly, the Sleepwalkers cannot survive contact with simple house cats, which leads to all sorts of ridiculous scenes of our bad guy screaming in horror at the sight of Garfield. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025 The ache at the sight of an empty mailbox was, in my memory, more than balanced out by the ecstasy at the letter that finally arrived. Melissa Kirsch, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025 The crowd erupted into cheers at the sight of Trump. Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for at the sight of

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“At the sight of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20the%20sight%20of. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

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