espy
verb (used with object)
to see at a distance; catch sight of.
have espied
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present perfectof espy.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Eagles that flew high over the warm bright Mediterranean last week could have espied a slim black object floating on the water beneath them.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the dimness of its dreary day few things even in that land of vigilance could have espied them, save from close at hand.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Who knows what their keen eyes may have espied along that brink?
From The Delight Makers by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
This movement was startlingly sudden, and his companions at first supposed him to have espied, to be pursuing, the glimpse of an acquaintance.
From The Ambassadors by Henry James
So cunningly concealed, that even her native-bred keenness might never have espied it, lay a path, and among the bushes, Andy's crutch!
From Then Marched the Brave by Anna S. Hicks
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