descrying
- present participle of descry.
Example Sentences
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My colleague Jessica Winter does have a helpful hint, though, for descrying Trump’s fanciest, sneakiest adviser:
From Slate ● May 2, 2017
Say you were descrying the future TV of 2000, 20 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
On descrying it, Richard pointed out a course to the left, but Nicholas held on, unheeding the caution.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
"But these people—" She looked up and down the long room with misty eyes, like one dimly descrying a throng.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth
Stas carefully placed the rifle at the bottom of each hillock; afterwards climbed to the top, and descrying the hills blackly outlined on the background of the sky, descended and proceeded farther.
From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
