How to Use vanishing point in a Sentence

vanishing point

noun
  • The third has become the vanishing point for the Celtics.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2022
  • The progress of the disease is a forced march toward the vanishing point of mianzi.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2020
  • There’s something strange about its perspective scheme: The vanishing point seems to be off to the left.
    Washington Post, 23 June 2021
  • The chamber of the United States House of Representatives has a vanishing point as well.
    Paul Begala, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022
  • By the time of Wallace’s death, in 1998, his influence over the electorate and the two major parties had dissipated to the vanishing point.
    Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The story acknowledges its collapse at this vanishing point, which is not a frontier of any type or variety.
    Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Together the vanishing points define the viewpoint of the observer.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Historic Black communities in Fayetteville are down to the vanishing point, panelists were told.
    Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 23 June 2023
  • Last Supper contains perhaps the most famous vanishing point.
    Longreads, 14 Apr. 2020
  • On one side, shipping-container shapes speed toward a vanishing point; on another, a towering wall buckles like a volleyball net in the wind.
    Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The result is a distracting jumble that reduces the stakes of the movie’s mighty showdown nearly to a vanishing point, and turns the title titans and their other colossal cohorts into the incredible shrinking monsters.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2021
  • These renderings can proceed in different ways, determined by the number of vanishing points employed.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Apart from a few diagonals gesturing laconically toward a vanishing point, there’s no real attempt to create a sense of receding space.
    Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Occasionally, pinched between the natural elements, there were signs of civilization—dark blips along the horizon or dusty ribbons of road running poetically to a vanishing point.
    Sarah Boxer, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Over time, some change in the environment—maybe a tick-borne disease or more habitat disappearing—pushes the genetically vulnerable population to the vanishing point.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 30 June 2021
  • Dack’s formidably original perspective and temperament seem formatted away to the vanishing point.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This optical technique, perfected in 15th-century Italian visual art, arranged scenic images around a central vanishing point, creating the semblance of an infinitely receding space.
    Joseph Cermatori, New York Times, 11 June 2021
  • The shot’s vantage foreshortens Susiraja’s reclining figure, exaggerating its proportions, rendering her bare legs and midsection mountainous while shrinking her head, which almost aligns with the composition’s vanishing point.
    Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, 22 May 2022
  • Malignant social psychology hastens the vanishing point.
    Longreads, 14 Apr. 2020

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