spy out

verb

1. to discover by careful observation

   to spy out a route

2. to make a close scrutiny of

   to spy out the land

Example Sentences

Valence sent a woman, disguised as a beggar, to spy out the position; but Bruce saw through the dodge, and the spy confessed.

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To spy out the land with a naval telescope over a mile of sea means taking a lot on trust as we learned to our cost on April 25th.

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She was to join him a week later, after he had had time to spy out the land and make his nefarious schemes for a mock marriage.

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Why, to keep one's eyes of either side 's nose, that what a man can not smell out, he may spy out.

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One day he started with a few men to spy out the position of his Indian foes.

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