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Idioms and Phrases

Experiencing hallucinations or delusions, as in I thought I saw my father, but I must have been seeing things; he died twenty years ago . [First half of 1900s]

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Example Sentences

But when you start seeing things from his perspective, you start to see that he was trying to set things right.

All that matters from their way of seeing things is that on January 20 of that year, everything changed.

As an audience member, I miss seeing things from the female perspective.

Norman, as pointed out by Norma, has a history of seeing things that may not exist.

Some are so strong that they muscle you into seeing things their way.

It was just like a bird, and when she sang the Southern melodies she seemed to be in a trance, seeing things we could not see.

Even in her quietest moments there was that about her—a sort of repressed eagerness, a look of seeing things far away.

In truth, she was seeing things millions of miles away; she was seeing a Promised Land.

The mass of mankind will never have any ardent zeal for seeing things as they are; very inadequate ideas will satisfy them.

Here was another instance of the white fellow's wonderful power of seeing things a good way behind him.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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