Example Sentences

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“We got them,” he said to his colleague, who had been scanning the terrain.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2025

A similar cohort of Chinese IP addresses had been scanning the internet for low level, easily exploitable vulnerabilities since Friday, he added, and did not match the usual activity carried out by Chinese government hackers.

From Reuters • Aug. 2, 2022

While we on the Akademik Fedorov had been scanning one local area, scientists onboard the nearby German ship had been checking a strange floe southeast of us.

From Scientific American • Oct. 15, 2019

The police said the victim had been scanning the treetops for birds, carrying a professional camera with a zoom lens in her backpack, when Mr. Mitchell appeared.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2012

Meanwhile Harry had been scanning the faces of the men who confronted them, and made a surprising discovery.

From In A New World or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia by Alger, Horatio