descry
verb (used with object)
descries
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present tense formof descry (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Whenever it descries danger from afar, the submarine can disappear under the water in anywhere from twenty seconds to a minute.
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case, I read it in thy looks; thy languish'd grace, To me, that feel the like, thy state descries.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
It is a superficial judgment that descries nothing but insincerity in the unvarying suavity of a well-bred manner; that regards the conventional code of behavior as merely a device for rendering social life artificial.
From Etiquette by Agnes H. Morton
As in search for Turnus he bent his glance this way and that round the separate ranks, he descries the city free from all this warfare, unpunished and unstirred.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
His heart feels a fresh bound; he feels neither strain of limb nor scantness of breath, and, searching as he runs, he descries before him in the plain the deceitful sire alone.
From Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Thrum
