reconnoitre

Example Sentences

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He was headed, generally, for Lake Superior, and would reconnoitre once he got to Lake Michigan.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018

The Sunni caliph Mansur, whose new empire stretched from India to the Atlantic, sailed up and down the Tigris to reconnoitre a place for his home.

From Economist • Jun. 12, 2014

Swarms of fighting planes took off to reconnoitre.

From Time Magazine Archive

The President sent Harry Hopkins and a group of experts out to reconnoitre the wake of the retreating flood.

From Time Magazine Archive

He guessed that the Zeppelin was making for Fort Loncin, probably to reconnoitre, for its bombs would have little or no effect on the armoured cupola of the fort.

From A Hero of Li?ge by Strang, Herbert