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How to use spy in a sentence

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The story turns rote, like a billion spy novels where the rogue agent has to meet his superiors and turn the tables.
He was the one who talked filth to Laura Dern in Wild At Heart and more recently played a thumbless Canadian spy in The English Patient.
Many spy thrillers make the espionage business look like a blast, but nothing here comes across as fun.
I read village mysteries and hard-boiled American private eye novels, spy thrillers and police procedurals.
And he spends too much time debunking the idea of the spy or secret agent's impact on operations.
Gabe and Isaiah see this as their chance to be secret agents on some sort of spy mission or something.
The spy writer falsely claimed he wrote the manuscript for the Enigma book.
The lesser scaup is a lovely duck indeed, one that, on its own merits, should always be a pleasure to spy on a lake or stretch of sea coast.
So most people don't want to see art films nor do they want to see generic teen comedies or spy thrillers.
Will and I talked most of the day and played noughts and crosses and I spy when we weren't talking.
He dodged the cops by monitoring police scanners to spy on the very people who were tracking him.
Remember the old spy movies where any gadget could be fit inside a pen, be it a tape recorder, a radio or a bomb?
Atop the squared hilltop we spy the silhouetted form of a stag with magnificent antlers.
But the multilayered Maturin, who sometimes dips too often into his own medicine chest, is also a spy for British intelligence.
How important was the ability to practice the art of seduction for a modern spy?
Detecting the spy behind the curtain and mistaking him for King Claudius, Hamlet plunges his sword into the arras and slays Polonius.
Polonius reports that he will spy on Hamlet's visit to Queen Gertrude by stowing himself behind an arras in her bedroom.
If you are lucky enough to live on the outskirts of a forest, there is a great chance that you will spy an antler or two, usually at dusk.
John Lawton writes spy novels in which the spies are villains, and there's no doubt about it.
He is a government spy who can move without let or hindrance between France and England.
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Examples from Classical Literature
More than a few of the fellows say he must have been a spy, and up to some mischief, because he slipped off so slickly.
Our spy is a gentleman who will appear wearing the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, and looking like a diplomate.
He resumed his reading and docketing, by the light of the little lamp which had just subserved the purposes of a spy.
She had expected him to berate her for taking him for a spy and he had asked her to marry him.
Not to seem to spy upon her, Weatheral made his way back though the coatroom without disclosing himself.
I have paced the colonnade for more than an hour, waiting the coming of this spy.
This organization was originally founded to spy on communists and Socialists.
With impulsive kindness he stops and speaks assuringly to this juvenile spy.
He's plotting with Germans, or why did Grimm spy on us, and von Brning cross-examine us?
The spy from abo had seen me on the railway platform on my departure from Petersburg.
A spy of that sort can afford to be more reckless than the most reckless of conspirators.
It was suggested by a plate of apples that he happened to spy on the mantel-piece.
We thought it contained an infernal machine, and that he might be a German spy.
He may be a spy who has been over to Gonzales, and carries some kind of a message.
The best he could hope for, in all probability, was the short shrift of a spy.
You are a houseman, and you have come to spy out the secrets of Doom the Forbidden.
The computers I love are being co-opted, used to spy on us, control us, snitch on us.
He did it so he could snoop around the house and spy on us without interruption.
Were they incarcerating some new prisoner, or were they stationing a spy there?
I will not say in what country, for all countries have been hospitable to me, and I am neither a spy nor a traitress.
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