reconnoitre
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
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
The planes reconnoitre and threaten, the people fear.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their base will be so much farther north that they will be able to reconnoitre slowly and widely before making any such dashes as Amundsen's.
From Time Magazine Archive
So I am going to make a little trip to the capital, just to reconnoitre.
From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
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
Toward these well-guarded objectives Mussolini reconnoitred but moved scarcely at all last week.
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
Their mark was the south-western angle of the fort; that was the quarter, said Copstone, whence it might be most safely reconnoitred.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
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
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
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
Nansen and Sverdrup now made a reconnoitring expedition, and did not return till five o’clock the next morning.
From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Jacob B. Bull
I was too restless to sit still, so spent the day in reconnoitring the country.
From My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills by James Johnstone, chevalier de Johnstone
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