Example sentences for: spies

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

  • The conspiracy theory is that the weapons inspectors were U.S. spies.

  • 6) Without spies, the U.N. building would be empty.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • As an ex-Soviet spy and the man who kicked off the internal Cold War by naming a group of high government officials as fellow spies, he was certainly the instigator of a national panic.


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