Argus-eyed

[ ahr-guhs-ahyd ]

adjective

1. having keen eyes; vigilant; watchful.

Argus-eyed

adjective

1. keen-sighted; observant; vigilant

Example Sentences

“What happened?” exclaimed Courtland Cox, a gray-bearded, Argus-eyed executive producer, after one of more than a dozen simultaneous feeds broadcast Malia White, the franchise’s first-ever female bosun, cutting herself off with a midsentence expletive.

From New York Times

It is a transfixing beast, Argus-eyed and monolithic, pulsing with durable Kraftwerk beats, a monument to agitated awe.

From The New Yorker

God damnthe prurulent pestilent wind,and the pullulating sea.The eternal infinite, cosmical, blue,deep, unfathomed, boundless, free,racing, wild, mysterious sea –its argus-eyed, winged and lanthorned dwellers.And you; Walt.

From The Guardian

I wanted to begin over again, but she was afraid that our absence would be noticed by her two Argus-eyed cousins, so she kissed me and left the room.

From Project Gutenberg

Through her she commanded an army of spies who, for a drop of the crather, studied my lady's face, translated her thoughts, imagined motives, as servants will who are argus-eyed, imaginative, inquisitive, endowed with a hundred ears.

From Project Gutenberg