Example Sentences

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Search aircraft from the U.S. and Canada have been scanning the surface, while sonar buoys have been pinging the depths in hopes of locating the lost submersible.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023

For decades, scientists around the world have been scanning the sky, searching for potentially hazardous asteroids in the vicinity of Earth.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2022

Underwater drones equipped with cameras, sonar and lasers have been scanning 100 square miles of seafloor looking for the remains of the 144-foot wooden ship, which sank in 1915 after being crushed in ice.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2022

For the past month – pandemic and massive snowfalls permitting – Avial and his colleagues have been scanning Our Lady of Sorrows with ground-penetrating radar equipment.

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2021

We have been scanning the papers and have obtained a considerable amount of information from them.

From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Barrow, Katherine Mary