Example sentences for: spy

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

  • Has the Chinese Spy Story Fizzled?

  • The Sunday Telegraph 's spy scoops: The KGB ran a "dirty tricks" campaign to persuade Americans that President John F. Kennedy was murdered by the CIA; the agency planned to maim Russian ballet dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Natalya Makarova for defecting to the West; it launched a series of plots against Pope John Paul II; and it planted KGB agents as assistants to three successive secretaries-general of the United Nations.

  • With the Cold War over, and the intelligence community roiled by the Ames spy scandal, a presidential commission chaired first by former secretary of defense Les Aspin and later by former secretary of defense Harold Brown examined the intelligence community's future.

  • Why is it that the same officials who are so relentless and vociferous in their condemnation of Jonathan Pollard and Israel are so utterly silent about all the other recent spy cases where the charges were far more serious and the damage was measurable?

  • But those readers looking to remember the bad old days can find this sort of thing, and plenty of it, in Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali's important new book on the Cuban missile crisis, "One Hell of a Gamble ." It would be nice to report that their account packs the pleasure and thrills of a spy novel, but that's not exactly the case.


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