espy
verb (used with object)
to see at a distance; catch sight of.
espies
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present tense formof espy (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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A man who stops for gas a sign espies That says a dog out back has quite a knack.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
Behind peppy songs like “Singin’ in the Rain” and “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” Mr. Mac espies a frantic need to forget those horrors.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015
Thus shines the wretched butterfly, With iridescent wing doth flap When captured in a schoolboy's cap; Thus shakes the hare when suddenly She from the winter corn espies A sportsman who in covert lies.
From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding
Denise cries as she espies Mr. Grandon, "if I had known you were here; I was afraid he would force his way in."
From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas
If he espies a cloud gathering he immediately begins to smoke tobacco with great vehemence, walking about with a quick pace and throwing the puffs towards it with all the force of his lungs.
From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden
