Spy is an English word of 3 letters with synonyms like sight or espy. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Spy in a sentence
Related words
Spy meaning
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
- A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
Synonyms of Spy
Using Spy
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage). | A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
- Useful related words include: undercover agent, sight, espy, spot.
- In the example corpus, spy often appears in combinations such as: chinese spy, spy balloon, the spy.
Context around Spy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spy
- In this selection, "spy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, underperformed, versus, watching, movies, agencies and story stand out and add context to how "spy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 20th century spy scandals much and a falling spy in north. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spy" sits close to words such as ghost, glad and wounds, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We spy on them; they spy on us. (8 words)
We’re one black hat away from Spy vs Spy pic. (11 words)
As you say, these spy-versus-spy games are commonplace in international politics. (13 words)
With the Rogue Nation now set up as an evil analog to the IMF (the aptly named Impossible Mission Force), it would make quite a bit of sense for future films to revolve around the particular spy vs. spy dynamic. (40 words)
A clothes hook camera might not be the type of spy equipment that comes to mind from watching spy movies, but this clever way to disguise surveillance equipment might be borderline brilliant. (32 words)
Later novels and discrepancies In 1974, the novel Spy Story was published, followed in 1976 by Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy (also known as Catch A Falling Spy in North America). (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
So far, 43 top names cohorts have beaten SPY, one has tied SPY, and 25 have underperformed SPY over the next 6 months.
Later novels and discrepancies In 1974, the novel Spy Story was published, followed in 1976 by Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy (also known as Catch A Falling Spy in North America).
As you say, these spy-versus-spy games are commonplace in international politics.
Over one year, Viatris underperformed SPY, posting a -1.87% return versus SPY's +18.90%, signaling bearish momentum.
We spy on them; they spy on us.
Amazon's slick spy thriller Citadel pulls from famous spy movies of the past, but it reuses one of the genre's oldest cliches to its advantage.
Directed by Matthew Vaughn, follows author Elly Conway, a spy novelist who authored popular books around a super spy named Agent Argylle (Henry Cavill).
Watching “Spy in the Wild” and when I see Spy Bear this is the only thing going through my mind.
A clothes hook camera might not be the type of spy equipment that comes to mind from watching spy movies, but this clever way to disguise surveillance equipment might be borderline brilliant.
After releasing the Meet the Spy video, Valve updated the Spy's character model to add the facial scar.
Spy vs. Spy was deliberately blind to the actual problems of the Cold War world, just to provide some dark humor as we faced an existential nuclear crisis.
The world uses one network, and there can only be one answer: Either everyone gets to spy, or no one gets to spy.
Bernard Collaery, the lawyer for former Australian spy Witness K, who helped expose a secret government mission to spy on Timor-Leste during lucrative oil and gas negotiations.
In “Memoirs of an Amateur Spy,” he described himself as the first Cold War spy.
It was reported recently that Chinese spy agencies that put chips inside Super Micro’s hardware to spy on Western technology companies like Apple and Amazon.
We’re one black hat away from Spy vs Spy pic.
With the Rogue Nation now set up as an evil analog to the IMF (the aptly named Impossible Mission Force), it would make quite a bit of sense for future films to revolve around the particular spy vs. spy dynamic.
Animated "Spy vs. Spy" sequences have also been seen in TV ads for Mountain Dew soda in 2004.
During the many 20th century spy scandals, much information became publicly known about national spy agencies and dozens of real-life secret agents.
Historic Town Hall with "Spy" "Spy's Tower" The Historic Town Hall was originally built in the 14th century.
Common combinations with spy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- chinese spy 26×
- spy balloon 26×
- the spy 16×
- spy on 15×
- to spy 14×
- spy satellite 10×
- of spy 8×
- spy in 6×
- russian spy 6×
- spy family 6×