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
Hence desperate efforts were made to deter him—efforts which did not escape the Argus-eyed Walsingham.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn
But Madame Boulanger was not Argus-eyed, and thus we often saw Madame Leroy escape through the front door and roll like a huge balloon along the boulevard, bent on what she called "collecting her rents."
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
No doubt the proof-room Argus-eyed Approves the “style” of nation-wide.
From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston
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