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
• But years of relentless human population growth have driven many to the vanishing point: Florida is home to sixty-seven species of threatened and endangered animals, among the highest numbers in the continental U.S.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 17 July 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
• Perpendicular to the tracks is a kilometer-long road that accommodates recurring police car chases that go out into what looks like a matte painting but is actually a vanishing point where the manufactured desert meets the Spanish sky.
  — Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024