Explore Spies through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Spies in a sentence
Spies meaning
plural of spy
Using Spies
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of spy
- In the example corpus, spies often appears in combinations such as: spies and, the spies, spies in.
Context around Spies
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spies
- In this selection, "spies" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, non, foreign, super, themselves, referred and reminiscent stand out and add context to how "spies" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include against non spies espionage laws and and foreign spies. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spies" sits close to words such as benz, binge and caliber, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spies
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Every state seeks to place spies in this way. (9 words)
Even with spies all across the continent feeding information, Wakanda is overwhelmed. (12 words)
Use against non-spies Espionage laws are also used to prosecute non-spies. (13 words)
The term "poison pill" derives its original meaning from a poison pill physically carried by various spies throughout history, a pill which was taken by the spies when they were discovered to eliminate the possibility of being interrogated by an enemy. (41 words)
Tabari relates in his History of the Prophets and Kings that Joshua was one of the twelve spies and Muslim scholars believe that the two believing spies referred to in the Qur’ān are Joshua and Caleb. (37 words)
Artificial intelligence will change the world of espionage, but it won’t replace the need for human spies, the head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency says in prepared remarks released Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
In that movie, a pair of siblings discover that their parents are super spies when they get captured, and must become spies themselves in order to rescue mom and dad.
As for spies who get caught, the CCP will definitely not try to bring them back; that is, the CCP does not protect its spies.
Most of those prosecuted were labeled by the Kuomintang as "bandit spies" (匪諜), meaning spies for Chinese Communists, and punished as such.
Tabari relates in his History of the Prophets and Kings that Joshua was one of the twelve spies and Muslim scholars believe that the two believing spies referred to in the Qur’ān are Joshua and Caleb.
That same year, Aykroyd and Chevy Chase guest starred in the Family Guy episode " Spies Reminiscent of Us ", an homage to Spies Like Us.
The term "poison pill" derives its original meaning from a poison pill physically carried by various spies throughout history, a pill which was taken by the spies when they were discovered to eliminate the possibility of being interrogated by an enemy.
Use against non-spies Espionage laws are also used to prosecute non-spies.
After each round of chaotic arrests and executions, the CCP often acknowledges that many of the so-called spies have been falsely accused.
After his mission is exposed, he must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.
And the informant is one of those tricky international spies who has used spycraft to go dark.
Artificial intelligence will change the world of espionage, but it won’t replace the need for human spies, the head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency says in prepared remarks released Wednesday, July 19, 2023.
As bullets fly around a high-speed train carrying a former Miss World and a gang of spies through the Italian Alps, shopping is surely the last thing on viewers’ minds.
At the same time, the government is choosing to shout about some measures that are not in the King’s Speech but where it spies important reforms or political advantage anyway.
Brody's death allowed them to shift gears behind the scenes by attending a real-life camp for spies.
During the proceeding, Manfredonia apologized individually to the family of DeMers, Franco and Hipsky — much like he did a day earlier when he apologized to the Eisele family and Spies separately.
Elements like Gershkovich are spies for the empire of lies masquerading as journalists.
Even more unlikely, while she was there, no one noticed or cared that a scientist with access to Cold War-era atomic secrets kept meeting with both American and foreign spies.
Even with spies all across the continent feeding information, Wakanda is overwhelmed.
Every state seeks to place spies in this way.
He claimed the spies were deployed across the state, especially at the Bayelsa International Cargo Airport to document and report his movements to ‘off-grid security architecture’ in the state.
Common combinations with spies
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- spies and 19×
- the spies 13×
- spies in 12×
- russian spies 12×
- of spies 11×
- for spies 8×
- spies who 8×
- spies for 7×
- spies to 7×
- spies is 6×