Example Sentences

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The story assembles before our eyes like an illustration in a manual for superspies.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2023

Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson were nearly too old to pass as male models in 2001’s Zoolander, so in 2016, they’re brought together as dim-witted superspies to fight more tyranny in the fashion world.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2016

Small and physically unimposing, Alex has to out-think her opponents; her victories are sweeter because they’re harder won than the triumphs of all those default Hollywood hard-bodied superspies.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2016

They may be superspies caught up in the not-so-quotidian realities of espionage, but they are also a suburban couple who must contend with the bedrock banalities of maintaining a marriage and raising a family.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2015

Instead of casual, world-hopping superspies, here we have them as two weary, dreary guys whose lives are on the skids.

From Time Magazine Archive