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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De Monts, efforts of, to obtain colonists, 25; cedes his privileges in Acadia, 34, 35; his commission and privileges, 153-155; descries the Isles of Shoals, 155; in Plymouth Bay, 273, 274, 275.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
As for Thucydides, his knowledge of men, the fruit of patient experience deepened by disappointment, is felt behind every line of his book, as one descries it in the features of his undegenerate descendant Venizelos.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
Barclay, Captain, first descries the Straits of Fuca, 19, 62.
From The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery by Travers Twiss
Who searches oft in small things worth descries.
From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme
"Mote-like they flicker in unsteady eyes, And weakest his who best descries."
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
