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
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
Police Chief Murphy Paul descried the footage as “shocking to the conscience,” even as he emphasized that it does not “tell the whole story of the investigation.”
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2018
The six and twentieth day of April, about four o’clock in the morning, we descried the land of Virginia.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
