hawk-eyed

Example Sentences

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Supervising the proceedings were stern-faced male and female guards with the hawk-eyed looks of chaperones at a high school dance.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2022

Of course now their alleged ruse appears to have been rumbled by a hawk-eyed reporter from The Athletic, they might not chance it.

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2022

Holmes's real-life model was Doyle's professor, hawk-eyed diagnostician Joseph Bell; writers from Émile Gaboriau to Edgar Allen Poe offered fictional prototypes.

From Nature • Jan. 24, 2017

Their mother skipped out on the family some time before their dad’s death, so Anna has served as the hawk-eyed de facto parent for Lilly, who is several years younger.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2016

Rahel watched hawk-eyed to try and gauge how much Ammu loved Sophie Mol, but couldn’t.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy