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
The President sent Harry Hopkins and a group of experts out to reconnoitre the wake of the retreating flood.
From Time Magazine Archive
The planes reconnoitre and threaten, the people fear.
From Time Magazine Archive
The following day Bullock and Mallory left us, making direct for Mount Everest, and intending to reconnoitre the North and Northwestern slopes.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
