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How to use descry in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word descry? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
How could she possibly descry the ship's position from a standpoint of utter blindness.
While he clearly indicates productions he considers successful, I would be hard-pressed to descry a pattern among them.
The bears trace in Alan Greenspan the indulgence of Andrew Mellon, and descry in George W Bush the weakness of Herbert Hoover.
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.
The attentive observer will still, this very day, be able to descry the contours, at the shoreline of the sandy beach of the Balneolis.
It is, as Wodehouse said, difficult to descry the bluebird.
His Body was found almost naked in the field, for his Purple Robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him, unwilling to be found.
From it will be able there to descry the building.
Now single it is necessary to continue lowering in the direction of the beach, and from the same beach it will be able to descry a set of urbanizations of recent construction.
And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel.
Examples from Classical Literature
Behind them we could dimly descry a white tablecloth, a tea cozy and covered dishes.
I hope you will descry in this a reason for coming to me again, instead of my coming to you.
There was hardly a spot of him where you could not descry some sign of a bone underneath.
How many things are there in the world in which the wisest of us can ill descry the hand of God!
Along the shores of Fond du Lac we descry a long-legged wader, the phalarope.
Silvey strained his eyes far out in an effort to descry the captive.
They can descry waveless water, seemingly as tranquil as a pond.
I never saw him afterwards, but I sometimes imagine that I descry a faint reflection of him in John Browdie.
Then I seemed to descry at the point of the bay windward a sail.
If only she could descry something plain to tell her husband!
Bolko could descry the figure of Auriola at the margin of the spring.
No people who have lived much with Nature have failed to descry this.
In the faint light, too, we could descry dim galloping forms half hidden by wreaths of sand.
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