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
Now I knew why it was that its frowning facade had seemed to watch us Argus-eyed as the Things had tossed us toward it.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
Of course an Argus-eyed busy-body had seen Tinker depart in it; and M. Cognier, an Anglophobe, had declared his intention of punishing this insolence of Perfidious Albion by handing him over to the police.
From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson
Its place had been pre-empted by Argus-eyed regard for all matters affecting the preservation of Mr. Podmore's precious epidermis—the safety of his own skin.
From Every Man for Himself by Hopkins Moorhouse
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