espy
Example Sentences
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And sympathy for the people whom we espy is born out of that complicity, a compassion that stems from the false sense that we are observing people’s most private moments without permission, undetected.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2015
A traveller upon the sea she fared, fleeting on with foam about her throat over the waves, over the ocean-streams with wreathéd prow, until they might espy the Geatish cliffs and headlands that they knew.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 2, 2014
They know that the other judges of the World Court are not filled with gladness when they espy the ruddy, oval face and trim white beard of John Bassett Moore.
From Time Magazine Archive
I did espy one couple who had obtained a turkey.
From Time Magazine Archive
We could not espy Pomp, living or dead.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing espy
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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"Of Plymouth Plantation" by William Bradford
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