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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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