How To Use descry In A Sentence
- I descry a sail on the horizon.
- The following year police raided an exhibition of Lawrence's paintings and seized every canvas on which they could descry any wisp of pubic hair.
- By the glimmer of light lent me, I can but guess greatness and descry vagueness. The Kempton-Wace Letters
- There would he lay till they would him descry, spancelled down upon a blossomy bed, at one foule stretch, amongst the daffydowndillies, the flowers of narcosis fourfettering his footlights, a halohedge of wild spuds hovering over him, epicures waltzing with gardenfillers, puritan shoots advancing to Aran chiefs. Finnegans Wake
- The Athenian day-watch descrying him, signalled to the generals, and they, with twenty sail, put out to sea to attack him. Hellenica
- It is my hope, and my presumption, that such a place of appulse may be found, where we may take our stand, and from whence we may have a full view of the mighty expanse before us; from whence also we may descry the original design, and order, of all those objects, which by length of time, and their own remoteness, have been rendered so confused and uncertain. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
- Barton a super-woman -- or at least they were personalities so designated by the cub book-reviewers, flat-floor men and women, and scholastically emasculated critics, who from across the dreary levels of their living can descry no glorious humans over-topping their horizons. THE KANAKA SURF
- Shakespeare 'descry' also occurs in the sense of 'to reconnoitre.' Milton's Comus
- Danlo was perhaps the only one to descry Hanuman's true potential. THE BROKEN GOD
- He has no problem descrying "moral responsibility" but he's fuzzy about legal responsibility such as the definition of slander. Bernard-Henri Lévy says why Barack Obama will be President.
