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

When he espies a small figure in soft gray with a wide-brimmed leghorn hat, and a young man, he studies them more attentively.

From A Little Girl of Long Ago by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

The anxious father espies a merchant wending slowly along the highway and hails him.

From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Spence, Lewis

At this moment, however, the leader espies a small tuft of grass on the face of the desert, and, reasoning that water must be flowing somewhere underneath, inspires his exhausted followers to new exertions.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix