Definition of "espying" [espying]

• Present participle of espy. (verb)

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• "So that's like espying Antarctica from a ship near Greenland."
• "Any museum-goer who has peeped through the eyeholes in the rough wooden-door façade of Marcel Duchamp's "Etant Donnés" 1946-66 and caught sight of that work's sprawling, naked, female mannequin will get a sense of what espying Eiko and Koma feels like."
• "She probably wanted to be a very great artist, he felt, espying a deeper ambition precisely because it was buried."