reconnoitre
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
noun
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Etymology
Origin of reconnoitre
C18: from obsolete French reconnoître to inspect, explore; see recognize
Example Sentences
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He was headed, generally, for Lake Superior, and would reconnoitre once he got to Lake Michigan.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
The Sunni caliph Mansur, whose new empire stretched from India to the Atlantic, sailed up and down the Tigris to reconnoitre a place for his home.
From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014
About a month ago Count Edmondo di Robilant and Mechanic Mauranta Quaranta left Sao Paulo, Brazil in a fast Fiat pursuit plane, to reconnoitre a prospective air line to Bolivia.
From Time Magazine Archive
He did not even reconnoitre to discover the whereabouts of the enemy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once, when in the advance of the army—it was always there—one of its captains, sent out to reconnoitre, was surrounded in the darkness by foes.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
The citation for temporary Lieutenant Robert Hastings read: "He personally reconnoitred the approach to the position under very severe rifle and machine-gun fire."
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2018
Dubbed Little Nellie, the machine enabled Bond, played by Sean Connery, to fight off a helicopter attack as he reconnoitred a Spectre base hidden in a Japanese volcano.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2013
Then they issued into the evening streets, reconnoitred in restaurants, newsstands, dance halls, bars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exactly a century ago State surveyors reconnoitred a rail route over Pennsylvania's forested ridges between Chambersburg and Pittsburgh.
From Time Magazine Archive
Admiral Price reconnoitred the harbour and town, and placed the Virago in position at 2,000 yards.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper
Erisso's daughter Anna, meanwhile, finds herself torn between familial and patriotic loyalties and her attraction to Maometto, whom she had fallen in love with when he was reconnoitring Greece in disguise.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2013
He became active last year as an oratorical scout, reconnoitring British public opinion in advance of the isolationist policies formally adopted by His Majesty's Government last week .
From Time Magazine Archive
By last week, instead of marching, U. S. business was generally marking time, with only a few industries pushing ahead like scouts reconnoitring in enemy territory.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had become little better than a disastrous reconnoitring party.
From The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo by William O. Stoddard
Contrary to all expectation, De130 Graff, perhaps too old for service, wasted eight days in reconnoitring, and abandoned post after post.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
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