Example Sentences

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In 2021, another young Eagle Scout candidate led an initiative to renovate one of the lookout’s trails, filling it with gravel and leveling it to make it wheelchair-friendly.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023

The Desolation lookout’s roof was replaced in 2009.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2022

“It’s a magnet for mice,” says Don Allen as he peruses the mouse remnants still permeating the lookout’s interior ceiling.

From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2016

His face was thin, a tightly cropped beard undergirding prominent cheekbones, and he had a lookout’s gaze, drifting more than darting but always alert.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2015

At dawn one February morning, when they were in the Indian Ocean, the lookout’s cry gave warning, “Sail ho-o-o-o-o-o! On the starboard bow!”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham