spy out

How to use spy out in a sentence

• Valence sent a woman, disguised as a beggar, to spy out the position; but Bruce saw through the dodge, and the spy confessed.

  King Robert the Bruce | A. F. Murison

• To spy out the land with a naval telescope over a mile of sea means taking a lot on trust as we learned to our cost on April 25th.

  Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton

• She was to join him a week later, after he had had time to spy out the land and make his nefarious schemes for a mock marriage.

  Jaffery | William J. Locke

• Why, to keep one's eyes of either side 's nose, that what a man can not smell out, he may spy out.

  Tolstoy on Shakespeare | Leo Tolstoy

• One day he started with a few men to spy out the position of his Indian foes.

  Stories of Heroic Deeds for Boys and Girls | James Johonnot