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

“I certainly don’t see myself as the hawk-eyed, sharp-nosed, hard military man, leading a battle fleet into the annals of history,” Admiral Woodward told the BBC when he went to war.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2013

This was a district of suburban streets and small shops, and before long, hawk-eyed Asta, with Ben flying close to her, cried out, “Left! Left!”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman