descry
verb (used with object)
descried
Example Sentences
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Once the employer of 500 people, the mill is a keyhole through which most of Dundee’s history can be descried.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022
Another witness descried their relationship as being "more like mother and daughter".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2021
A truly fascinating man, Angleton was a devoted student of the matchless British literary critic William Empson, who descried, in the densely metaphoric poems of Donne and Shakespeare, patterns of subtle contradiction, self-reference, and ambiguity.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019
Presently they descried people, naked, and the Admiral landed in the boat, which was armed, along with Martin Alonzo Pinzon, and Vincent Yanez his brother, captain of the Nina.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
There it seemed to Frodo that he descried far off, floating as it were on a shadowy sea, the high dim tops and broken pinnacles of old towers forlorn and dark.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
