Example sentences for: spies

How can you use “spies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In London, a Financial Times editorial said the United States has made itself an easy target for China's ambitious spies because of security failings that "are just the latest symptoms of a deep muddle over the direction of US policy towards China."

  • Königsstraße extends as far as an illustrious relic of the Cold War, Glienicker Bridge, once a restricted border crossing between West Berlin and East Germany where the KGB and CIA exchanged spies.

  • Yes, there is the usual trench-coat ineptitude--like trying to discredit Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski by spreading the word that he was having an affair with Candice Bergen (note to Kremlin: to discredit, try Bea Arthur)--but there's also the news that Russian spies managed to intercept fax communications of top U.S. defense contractors concerning some of this country's most sensitive military projects.

  • The Post catches the financiers nibbling on pea pancakes topped with caviar, while at another party, the Journal spies a six-foot-high ice sculpture of an eagle bedecked with oysters, shrimp and lobster.

  • During the 1920s and 1930s, Cokorde Gde Agung Sukawati, ruler of Ubud, extended a long Sukawati family tradition of patronizing talent and craftsmanship by hosting visiting Western artists, including the German painter, Walter Spies, who stayed for 14 years.


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