scout

Example Sentences

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Wearing white cowboy hats and sunburns, they were there to scout sites for future artwork, which they would go on to build, blast out and assemble on an epic scale over the next decade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

Lakers owner Jerry Buss fired Westhead and chose West, the team’s former coach who was working as a scout, to replace him.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026

Braff: I go, “You’re going to learn more on the tech scout than you could in film school.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

The newly disclosed documents show that Epstein, in the years after he got out of jail, helped the prince and his indebted ex-wife Sarah Ferguson manage their finances and scout new business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

“Ben, I will need your Second Sons to scout our enemies. Where they are, how fast they are advancing, how many men they have, and how they are disposed.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin