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How to use vista in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun, verb

Vista means a distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage. Example: “Open up vistas of expansion into hitherto untapped markets.”

Examples of vista by meaning

nounA vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.

  • a vista of pleasure to come
  • dim vistas of the past
  • Open up vistas of expansion into hitherto untapped markets.

More sentences with vista

  • I might be the first one to see some of these vistas!2023 October 17, Yoon Ha Lee, Fox Snare, Disney Electronic Content, →ISBN. From the entry tigerback
  • When quantum-mechanical phenomena are taken into account, new vistas open up both for codemakers and codebreakers.2015, Gilles Brassard, “Cryptography in a Quantum World”, in arXiv. From the entry codemaker
  • Long-ago stonecrafters had carefully carved a set of steps that led to nothing, save a striking vista.2014, Christie Golden, War Crimes (World of Warcraft), New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, pages 82–83. From the entry stonecrafter
  • The breathtaking beauty of this vista made my soul turn somersaults.2008 [1990], John Blofeld, “The Place I Love Most of All—Peking”, in Daniel Reid, transl., My Journey in Mystic China: Old Pu's Travel…. From the entry breathtaking
  • High Tide is laden with luscious pastels, watery vistas and quirky, weather-beaten clam joints.1988 April 16, Elizabeth Pincus, “Taming Upstart Women”, in Gay Community News, page 7. From the entry watery
  • The idea of what was about to become of all my things opened vistas.1919, Violet Irwin, chapter XXIV, in Wits and the Woman, Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 270. From the entry take French leave
  • Behind them lay the interminable vista of the desert, dotted here and there with an occasional oasis.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Through the Valley of the Shadow”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi]…. From the entry oasis
  • But I believe I am justified in shutting the door on this vista of argument.1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter 46, in What's Wrong With The World. From the entry shut the door
  • Vista was peak design and we’ve regressed since then.2026 July 8, u/DAPOPOBEFASTONYOAZZ, r/WindowsVista (Reddit post), archived from the original on 11 Jul 2026. From the entry peak
  • That's neither here nor there; just one of those interesting trufax one often encounters making their way through life's miraculous vistas.2012 February 2, Judith Fitzgerald, “MuseFlash Thursday: Marty Gervais, Patrick Woodcock and so much more”, in The Globe and Mail. From the entry trufax
  • The heights dizzied her, spiralling stone promising faintful vistas.2012, Casimir Greenfield, Bloodstones. From the entry faintful
  • To contemplate these icy, inevitable vistas of cosmic time is in a certain sense already to go beyond geotrauma.2012, Ed Keller, Eugene Thacker, Nicola Masciandaro, Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium, page 31. From the entry geotrauma
  • For here was a vista that was breath-catching and inspiring, a wholly new thing come into the world.2011, Harry Harrison, Tunnel Through the Deeps, →ISBN. From the entry breath-catching
  • Then a film of chemical vapour seems to drift around the city, fudging every edge, gauzing every vista.1985, Jan Morris, From the Four Corners, published 1995. From the entry gauze
  • It's not just an earthful of people, it's going to be an earthful of dull people with dull vistas.1980, David Ross Brower, Susan R. Schrepfer, David R. Brower, Environmental Activist, Publicist, and Prophet, page 320. From the entry earthful
  • The County Architect's Department is starting to pleach trees to open up these vistas, now almost hidden by the exuberant growth.1972, Ken Lemmon, "Restoration Work at Studley Royal," Garden History, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22. From the entry exuberant
  • Glass surrounds the cabin to provide unrivaled views of the environment, whether it’s an earthly vista or the binary sunset over the fictional Tatooine desert.2019 September 10, Kirsten Korosec, “Audi’s off-roading electric concept would be perfect for…. From the entry Tatooine
  • Though the new house was nice and the fieldy vistas enthralling, we soon began to notice that hardly anyone in the village liked us.2015, Nina Stibbe, Man at the Helm: A Novel. From the entry fieldy
  • By clicking on regions of the set, the user opens up whole new vistas of exploration, revealing new and ever emerging datascapes.2013, David J. Staley, Computers, Visualization, and History. From the entry datascape
  • A view from the tower here (¥20) provides vistas of Russia, North Korea and, on a clear day, the northern edge of Japan.2012, Simon Foster, Candice Lee, Jen Lin-Liu, Beth Reiber, Tini Tran, Lee Wing-sze, Christopher D. Winnan, Frommer's China (Frommer's)…. From the entry Fangchuan

Meaning of vista

  1. noun A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.
  2. noun A site offering such a view.
  3. noun A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.

Full definition of vista

Questions about vista in a sentence

How do you use vista in a sentence?
Vista is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Open up vistas of expansion into hitherto untapped markets.”
What is a short sentence with vista?
“dim vistas of the past”
What does vista mean?
Vista means a distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vista (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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