Example Sentences

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The nonprofit group’s pilots, spotters and other volunteers began regularly searching the Florida Straits by plane for other rafters.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

“I’d see a convoy of 20 or 30 SUVs and spotters, cellphone in hand, ready to give the alarm.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Kane and her fellow spotters publish the locations of officers and raids underway in an effort to document arrests and de-escalate the encounters with their presence.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Now there’s spotters to make sure no hawks are nearby.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025

Him and the other fellow I could see riding east, but they’d need an army of fence spotters to patrol even one ranch.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye