How to pronounce “spied” in English

An alabaster statuette spied through his window flaunting its nakedness atop his new desk.

if they spied us listening.

As I rode up, I spied the giant lumbering confidently among the large group that had gathered like buzzards anticipating a fresh roadkill buffet.

And I have a friend who I've known since sixth grade because I spied him reading "The Dragonlance Chronicles" across the room and I was like, we should probably be friends.

So you've written about Sorge, who spied while posing as a correspondent abroad.

There's a character in the novel who met his best friend back in sixth grade because he spied him reading this book across the room.

And every now and again, there'd be just a little mention of, oh, there was this American woman who had a wooden leg and spied for the Brits

So instead of mass surveillance, they do targeted surveillance, which means that they need first to know who should be spied on.

or the guy at Rutgers University, Tyler Clementi, years ago, who killed himself when his roommate spied on him.

I confess, sometimes from our veranda, I spied