Argus-eyed
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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It is a transfixing beast, Argus-eyed and monolithic, pulsing with durable Kraftwerk beats, a monument to agitated awe.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2019
But Pan Am, grown to international complication, is still all within the grasp of Juan Trippe's Argus-eyed mind, down to the last pontoon float on the Alaska run.
From Time Magazine Archive
No, there was the oath of office, and the government that administered it had been found long-armed and Argus-eyed.
From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson
War of some kind, big or little, has broken out, like a volcano, on some part of the earth’s surface, and kept the Argus-eyed newspaper editor on the alert.
From The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress by Jackson, Mason
Her old nurse was Argus-eyed; and our meetings were such as only lovers can effect.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
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