hawk-eyed

Example Sentences

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With a playwright as hawk-eyed as Gasda at the helm, “Zoomers” has the potential to be a substantial work about the new-to-adulthood generation, but it won’t get there playing safe, or playing Smash.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024

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

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

Thanks to all the hawk-eyed readers who pointed this out. 

From Economist • Sep. 23, 2012

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