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espy

[ UK /ɛspˈa‍ɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈɛspi/ ]
VERB
  1. catch sight of

How To Use espy In A Sentence

  • Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy? Boing Boing
  • Supposing Blair is correct, and parents do espy special, precious things that childless adults never can, it would still be reassuring to know that these are not outweighed by the associated burdens of exhaustion, continual interruption and prime ministerial anxiety about how to blag a first-class education without going private. Surely Dave and Nick have got better things to do? | Catherine Bennett
  • The thrasher, or red thrush, sneaks and skulks like a culprit, hiding in the densest alders; the catbird is a coquette and a flirt, as well as a sort of female Paul Pry; and the chewink shows his inhospitality by espying your movements like a detective. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs
  • Further, Espy speaks about epiphora on pages 174 and 205 as a rhetorical device containing the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
  • So that's like espying Antarctica from a ship near Greenland. Seth Shostak: Alien Vaporware
  • Only when they were in the shadow of All Hallows Church did the bailiff espy the Countess and give chase. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • She probably wanted to be a very great artist, he felt, espying a deeper ambition precisely because it was buried. A Happy Marriage
  • Here, from a window, did Guinevere espy a knight standing in a woodman's cart.
  • And we could even espy the flashing red, blue and silver uniforms of the Prussian soldiery themselves. ANTI-ICE
  • ‘I want that,’ my sister Molly says, espying my purchase.
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