noun
definition
A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
verb
definition
To act as a spy.
example
During the Cold War, Russia and America would each spy on each other for recon.
definition
To spot; to catch sight of.
example
I think I can spy that hot guy coming over here.
definition
To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
definition
To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
Examples of spies in a Sentence
I guess I watched too many movies about spies to know how they really work.
Jenn is the chief of my spies.
He favoured the death penalty for spies, but after the war advocated amnesty for political prisoners.
He was surrounded with spies who reported, none too accurately, the minister's somewhat sharp criticisms of the emperor's acts; he had even had the supreme presumption to advise Alexander not to take the chief command in the coming campaign.
The obsession that the country was full of German spies persisted until 1918, although Federal officers had broken up German espionage early in the war.
They have spies everywhere.
In1895-1896the friars acting as spies for the government, obtained the banishment of many hundreds of natives.
Andre himself had ordered their exiles when it was revealed they were Sasha's spies.
That's probably a good thing. The last thing you want is Death's spies telling her you're coming to kill her.
Romagna, replied to these persecutions by assassinating the more brutal officials ans spies.
He now caused them to build a great capital, Ecbatana, with a royal palace, and introduced the ceremonial of oriental courts; he surrounded himself with a guard and no longer showed' himself to the people, but gave his judgments in writing and controlled the people by officials and spies.
The priests remained behind in Jerusalem, and their sons Jonathan and Ahimaaz served as his spies.
Charles, upon whose head a reward of £30,000 had a year before been set, was thus for over five months relentlessly pursued by the troops and spies of the government.
For this he waited impatiently five years, keeping himself posted by spies of every stage of the king's last illness, and thus laying himself open to the accusation, believed in by Charles himself, that he had hastened the end by poison, a charge which modern historians deny.
For this step he was severely attacked in parliament, and was accused of fomenting rebellion by means of his spies.
The elevator door opened to reveal the massive form of Travis, one of Jenn's spies on the local police force.
One of Dusty's spies found out the Others have a weapon they want to use, we think to open the gateway between the immortal and mortal worlds.
My … spies report that you can't keep dealers and have no idea what's going on in the underworld.
The success with which the conspirators concealed their plot from Salisbury's spies is indeed astonishing, but is probably explained by its very audacity and by the absence of incriminating correspondence, the medium through which the minister chiefly obtained his knowledge of the plans of his enemies.
Surviving spies, finally, are those who bring back news from the enemy 's camp.
It was his job to protect the CIA from penetration by Soviet spies.
Thus they will become converted spies and available for our service.
In practice, it was almost always members of the ST who actually arrested and interrogated enemy spies.
She was spotted by our fashion spies in Yarm when she was out shopping with her mum. more How do you like yours?
The goal is to conquer your enemies with your army, magic and spies.
It's hard telling, but it turns out that Tiger's "indefinite break" form golf isn't faring so well as spies report that she's moving out of their home in Florida and back to her native Sweden.
Rather than just growing Red Delicious apples, an organic apple farmer might have Northern Spies or Rhode Island Greenings.
From Russia With Love puts you in the fancy shoes of the original James Bond, complete with Sean Connery providing the legendary spies' voice.
You can also use spies to find out enemy locations and even hire mercenaries to join your troops.
They are good for pretend play and help kids learn a little bit about the technology that real spies use.
For example, tell your young spies what areas of your home - and outside your home - are off limits for investigation.
If you have enough players, you can send out spies to see where the flag was hidden as well as look-outs to catch the spies.
These globe-trotting super spies bore only loose ties to the hospital, the closest being between Frisco and his brother Dr. Tony Jones.
Saving the world, however, soon became passé and the age of the super spies passed quietly to the likes of the Godfather as medical mysteries were supplanted with murder mysteries, crime sprees and sudden, violent crimes and shootings.
Gradually the Army began using the fortress to house Confederate spies and army deserters.
When you think of spy watches, you might think of James Bond, Remington Steele and other movie spies.
Lisa Wernick Spies is married to lawyer and Republican fundraiser Charlie Spies.
Lisa Spies is also a fundraiser for the Republican party, with most of her efforts going to Senator John Thune.Spies also works as an executive director for the National Women's Committee of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Against them are arrayed all the spies, sneaks, ghouls, orcs and other bad things that call the Dark Lord their ruler.
My … spies report that you can't keep dealers and have no idea what's going on in the underworld.
Absent one of those gizmos to see around corners or a newspaper with a hole in it to held high like all the really cool spies do, Dean tried the direct approach.
He's killed my last few spies.
In the conduct and detection of her correspondence with Babington, traitor was played off against traitor, and spies were utilized against assassins, with as little scruple as could be required or expected in the diplomacy of the time.
The country was flooded with spies, and a special Russian police force was created, the expenses being charged to the Finnish treasury.
The only executions were those of military ringleaders of mutinies or military spies, after due public trial and conviction by courts-martial; the total number of these executions was 63.
Andre's gift lent him great power and control over the mind, enough so that he had no problem recruiting spies as the others did.
If anyone, it was Tamer, whose isolation in Siberia and ability to outsmart Andre's spies gave him the ability to hide his actions.
Are you guys spies or something?
As the chief of the spies in this hemisphere, she'd been in a lot of really bad situations with nothing but her charm and mind control to keep her safe.
Legend has it that these mark the graves of spies who were buried alive.