- present tense form of espy (3rd person singular).
espies
Example Sentences
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A man who stops for gas a sign espies That says a dog out back has quite a knack.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
Behind peppy songs like “Singin’ in the Rain” and “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” Mr. Mac espies a frantic need to forget those horrors.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015
And if we pass from this profound knowledge of the objects to the empirical knowledge, to the external perception of bodies, it is in immense number that one espies around one traps laid by nature.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
He espies the particular niche which suits him perfectly, and he calmly descends a few rungs of the ladder and steps off into oblivion.
From Aliens by William McFee
Where she too quickly me espies, When I might plainely see, A thousand Cupids from her eyes 140Shoote all at once at me.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
