sharp-eyed

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Perceptive
acute
acuteness
antenna
catch
eagle-eyed
gimlet
have an eye for somethingidiom
have gimlet eyesidiom
have/keep (all) your wits about youidiom
hawkish
observant
perceptive
perceptively
percipiently
sensate
sensately
sharp
sharp-eyed
sharpness
wit

Examples of hawk-eyed

hawk-eyed
A little man with a goatee, hawk-nosed and hawk-eyed, came down the street with jingling spurs to meet them.
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Without a word my silent companion, who had been scanning the whole country with hawk-eyed eagerness, took the trail, motioning me to follow.
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And that man, that hawk-eyed man--" she shuddered, "must have recognized me.
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I have observed, in doing business with lawyers, that they are exceedingly hawk-eyed, and jealous of everybody.
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Not even the dealer or the hawk-eyed lookout was more intently absorbed in the game.
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The old hawk-eyed rider did not flinch or turn a shade off color.
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She waited, small and thin, hawk-eyed, imperious, and tempered like steel.
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And when disorder occurred, a word from this gray, hawk-eyed rover was enough to quell the wildest roisterers from the plantations.
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How could he sit before the hawk-eyed man whom he was about to meet without in some way betraying his secret?
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The door opened and a short, energetic old man, purple-visaged and hawk-eyed, came in.
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A gray-haired, hawk-eyed rider, lean and worn, approached with clinking spurs.
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This is only one out of hundreds of instances of the hawk-eyed vigilance of the governor-general.
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I saw him darting around like a hawk-eyed reporter this morning.
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The hawk-eyed man, for it was he that had been captured (his accomplice had vanished) made one more desperate effort to escape, but failed.
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The hunter was back, hawk-eyed.
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