Example Sentences

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Instead, they act as digital lookouts who hunt for coveted vintage apartments that are otherwise hard to find without expertise.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Passing sentence, Judge Peters KC told them that as drivers and lookouts, they were "part and parcel" of the conspiracy.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

They had plate numbers and makes and models of cars, and sometimes even VINs; they had scouts and lookouts; they had canvassed businesses and compiled surveillance footage.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

For lookouts reachable on foot within a day, the Forest Service provided a pack animal — but the human had to walk.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023

This proved impossible, as he couldn’t stop puzzling over what Malfoy was doing that needed lookouts.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling