Argus-eyed

[ ahr-guhs-ahyd ]

adjective

1. having keen eyes; vigilant; watchful.

Argus-eyed

adjective

1. keen-sighted; observant; vigilant

Example Sentences

“What happened?” exclaimed Courtland Cox, a gray-bearded, Argus-eyed executive producer, after one of more than a dozen simultaneous feeds broadcast Malia White, the franchise’s first-ever female bosun, cutting herself off with a midsentence expletive.

From New York Times

It is a transfixing beast, Argus-eyed and monolithic, pulsing with durable Kraftwerk beats, a monument to agitated awe.

From The New Yorker

God damnthe prurulent pestilent wind,and the pullulating sea.The eternal infinite, cosmical, blue,deep, unfathomed, boundless, free,racing, wild, mysterious sea –its argus-eyed, winged and lanthorned dwellers.And you; Walt.

From The Guardian

Through her she commanded an army of spies who, for a drop of the crather, studied my lady's face, translated her thoughts, imagined motives, as servants will who are argus-eyed, imaginative, inquisitive, endowed with a hundred ears.

From Project Gutenberg

Alas! in the moment of supreme triumph, whilst the Volunteers caracole so bravely down Sackville Street, we may detect grave symptoms of danger, which argus-eyed England scans with hope, while the Viceroy is laughing in the Castle.

From Project Gutenberg