Synonym: detect, discern, observe, see, sight, spot, view. Similar words: say, sec., any, bay, boy, buy, by, day. Meaning: [spaɪ] n. 1. (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors 2. a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people. v. 1. catch sight of 2. watch, observe, or inquire secretly 3. secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage.
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91) They were here to defend the heavens against high-altitude spy planes.
92) Newspapers admonished citizens to report any suspicious activity, encouraging them to spy on each other.
93) All they could hear was one of the spy planes.
94) In that case, researchers located debris with helicopters, infrared scanners and spy satellite photos.
95) The magazine also contains a problem page, church spy, stories, poetry and horoscopes.
96) He was a spy for the Soviets in Los Alamos, during the atomic bomb project.
97) It suggests there was an Oxford spy ring in the 1930s which passed secrets to the Soviet Union.
97) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
98) Unlike his predecessor, Bienvenu managed to survive his own spy scandal and its ensuing shake-up.
99) The Commission will, of course, have a spy beam on our conversation.
100) At one point U.S. military and intelligence services had 17 spy planes over Escobar's home city of Medellin.
101) But everyone gave the spy plane, nicknamed the Dragon Drone, high marks for simplicity and usefulness.
102) It was at that point, according to court papers, that his alleged spy career went dormant.
103) It is a little more complicated to copy a spy plane, but George Bush has a similar problem right now.
104) They say he is a spy, but nothing could be further from the truth.
105) Both men had reason to prefer the gloom, for one was a traitor and the other a spy.
106) At one hospital, Kimmons installed a spy as a housekeeper.
107) It is bad to play around with other people's wives and bad also to spy on President Amin.
108) Hernandez, as the chief spy, is facing a murder conspiracy charge for their deaths.
109) This was his hobby, sketching vertical monstrosities, though he might easily have been a spy.
110) Only later did I find out conjecture was rife that I was a government spy.
111) If federal officials had their way, the defendants in three high-profile spy cases would change their pleas of not guilty.
112) Government lawyers have been encouraged by a 1997 Appeal Court judgment preventing the spy George Blake from receiving royalties on his autobiography.
113) Well, he kept taking a few sips and peeping around the door to spy out the whereabouts of the principal.
114) All those who scoff at Ian Fleming's spy fantasies should think again.
115) His expulsion is probably more justified in terms of his considerable long-term potential as a spy than in terms of his current status and responsibilities.
116) The incriminating conversations that followed were recorded using hidden spy cameras.
117) In its view, there is not the time, the manpower or even the need to spy in the conventional sense.
118) It was very small, and in the best spy stories wouldn't have been noticed.
119) A spy pays for himself twice, because there's always the reward when we turn him in.
120) They used miniature cameras to photograph secret documents and shortwave radios to receive coded messages from their spy masters, prosecutors said.