- 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
Volscens is mad with rage, and nowhere espies the sender of the weapon, nor where to direct his fury.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
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
When darkness has fallen, out comes the ghost and prowling about espies the heap of yams and taro.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Sir James George Frazer
