spy on someone/something

Examples of spied

spied

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Negative comments about the father qua ex-spouse focused on lack of trust, feeling harassed, and spied upon.
Given the macroeconomic focus of this paper, we capture this asymmetric exposure to spying by assuming that only vertical innovation can be spied.
Outside on the road, he again spied the castrato going about his chores.
In the main part of this paper, we will translate these considerations into the drastic assumption that horizontal innovations cannot be spied at all.
Excavations were conducted in order to verify speculative ideas, findings were interpreted falsely or kept secret, and prehistorians were denounced or even spied upon.
Significantly as well, foreign borrowings- easily spied in katakana-are often terms representing new fashions and new ideas from abroad.
Nor, of course, were communists unaware that they were being spied upon, or that both private and official correspondence was routinely inspected by the authorities : nothing ever came first delivery!
Wells wrote that they then spied an enormous skull of a whale, partially embedded in the shingle and far away from the water's edge.
Before moving along that backbone into the library, the vast expanse of its interior is first introduced, spied through a porthole cut in the wooden panelling.
Inspired by recent evidence and by the patent law, we assume that only vertical innovations can be spied, because they are less easily patented than horizontal innovations.
I was not aware of being spied on.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
For some time she found that she was actually being spied upon in the street.
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