Example sentences for: spies

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

  • Capital city Baku is "rampant with ham-handed Russian spies, as well as Turkish gangsters (known for their proud display of chest hair), black-eyed Chechen revolutionaries, paranoid American diplomats, fanatical Iranian terrorists and financial speculators of various nationalities."

  • 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.

  • The NYT editorial argues that besides our spies, the policy folks at State and the White House fell down on the job too, given that the new Hindu nationalist government of India talked openly of its interest in nuclear weapons.

  • (Spies, thank God, can still smoke.)

  • Critics say reading it is "rather like looking into the new edition of a book from which half the pages had previously been torn out" (Joseph F. Perisco, the New York Times Book Review ). Controversial figures such as Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, and others thought by many to be the victims of the Red hunts of the '40s and '50s are confirmed as spies.


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