Definition: 1. A person who tries to get secret information about another country, organization, or person, especially sb who is employed by a government or the police. 2. Catch sight of. 3. Watch, observe, or inquire secretly. 4. Secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage.
Use 'spy' in a sentence:
1. They were denounced as spies.
2. The Russian spies were deported.
3. The spies have been tailing the underground worker.
4. It was first developed for the US government as a long-range spy aircraft, but was abandoned following budget cutbacks.
5. The spy ring passed secrets to the enemy.
6. He undertook increasingly dangerous assignments until his exposure as a spy.
7. They realized that the captured spy had gone mad.
8. I never agreed to spy against the United States.
9. He has issued a short, cryptic statement denying the spying charges.
10. I spy. a snake in that plant.
11. The headquarters had been infiltrated by enemy spies.
12. No spy agency or criminal organization could actively gather the type of data that we voluntarily post for them.
13. Another really interesting museum actually in D.C. is the Spy Museum.
14. The hidden things silence revealed: a pheasant craning its neck to spy on us from a thicket, a crow hopping from branch to branch, a raccoon snoring in den.
15. We want to spy in Jericho.
16. Then, he must spy on her father, a scientist who has developed a dangerous technology.
17. For the modern spy hunter, danger lurks in every corner.
18. Welcome to the digital, data-intensive, spy-in-the-sky age.
19. They're using villagers to keep an eye on each other, to spy on each other.
20. Are you set on the death of that spy?
21. The spy dodged with the lady.
22. Are you a police spy, Sir?
23. Social media allows government agencies to spy on their own citizens.
24. What do you do after being a spy?
25. U.S. spy agencies, through In-Q-Tel, have invested in a number of firms to help them better find that information.
26. Inside, about a dozen Kroll employees—all, it should be noted, as nondescript and un-spy like as Sam—were dining on fish and passion fruit cocktails.
27. The spies were all granted immunity from prosecution.
28. "She thinks you're a spy," Scott said matter-of-factly.
29. He was trained to be a spy.
30. And media firms spy a threat.
31. He had no scruples about spying on her.
32. Japan had originally demanded the return of two seamen held on spying charges.
33. The spy returned to deliver a second batch of classified documents.
34. Have you been spying on me?
35. He was jailed for five years as an alleged British spy.
36. Area 51 staff had to regularly interrupt such tests and hurry prototypes into "hoot-and-scoot sheds", lest they are detected by Soviet spy satellites.
37. His work as a civil servant was a cover for his activities as a spy.
38. He was denounced as a foreign spy.
39. East and West are still spying on one another.
40. Video spy cameras are being used in public places.
41. The spy ring had a fifth member as yet still undetected.
42. Once they had ascertained that he was not a spy, they agreed to release him.
43. The young man looked embarrassed, as if he were a spy whose cover had been blown.
44. He was jailed for five years as an alleged spy.
45. The phrase is common diplomatic parlance for spying.
