- 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
Terror-struck, he inquires whence it comes, and then espies the corpse.
From Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
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
Him seated in a hallowed vale, where lies His father's grove, Pilumnus', she espies.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
