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    Use "scout" in a sentence

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    scout


    scouted


    scouting


    scouts


    1. They may send a scout to check us out first


    2. After making sure that there were no surprises left in the air, Jake dispatched Rah to hunt down a scout that he knew would be there to observe and report back


    3. A little less than 30 minutes later Rah sighted the lone scout


    4. She wore her uniform like a brownie scout and managed to look like she was no more than a very pubescent twelve


    5. “This is a scout ship; we stole it from the maintenance dock


    6. To have achieved the taking of a scout ship means that they are well informed of the goings on in the higher reaches of Scather society


    7. His father knew; he'd accepted a bank draft signed by the famous scout


    8. Kaleb Myrtin, the forward scout, came into view,


    9. Always be prepared, like a scout, I carry all kinds of clothes


    10. You remind me of Scout

    11. Teams tried to scout


    12. minister or priest, a teacher, a coach, scout leader, teacher, policeman, a family friend or relative, a neighbor, etc


    13. He did commit to one thing however, not to a scout or coach, but to


    14. First he went upstairs and found his scout rucksack


    15. There must be pieces of at least a dozen scout ships or fighters or whatever---there are weapons signatures in the majority of the smaller bits out there


    16. a scout once, you know


    17. both our bottles, the goblin he had sent to scout out earlier returned, muttering angrily to himself in


    18. The men we sent in to scout them either didn’t


    19. Tony’s job was to run the scout team against the defense


    20. Boy Scout! We drove away

    21. “A scout,” Wethers suggested


    22. Moreover, it seemed safe to assume it was a scout; for had a fleet


    23. “So, we scout the house


    24. that was an old Selous Scout Selection trick, and could be eaten if cooked very thoroughly


    25. It was her duty to scout out the situation, to know where the guards had been stationed and to do all she could to help the invasion succeed


    26. "Perhaps," the scout agreed, his voice reflecting his doubts


    27. Shaking off his feelings of ambivalence over the killing of the boar, Brokin gave the scout his orders


    28. A small party had then been sent forward to scout the land


    29. In 1979 which you will note is just before the Rhodesian war ended the South African Police decided to create a Selous Scout type of unit for pseudo operations in Owamboland


    30. Brokin didn't argue, because without knowing why he accepted that what his scout said was the right thing to do

    31. He found a bleached old log to sit on, and placed a flat slab of stone to act as a reflector, feeling quite proud of his Boy Scout skills


    32. I would like to briefly respond to a letter published in your newspaper about a group of Larchmont residents, led by David Hechler, opposed to policies seeking to ban homosexuals from participating as Boy Scout Masters


    33. “That’s up near the old Scout camp,” the elder Brubaker said, as he sat at the kitchen table reading


    34. “My old man used to bring us up to the Scout camp


    35. He vaguely remembered seeing one at the Scout Camp when he was about twelve


    36. “Remember? You told me about a lost cabin up by the Scout camp, on the other side of the river


    37. The Scout camp was ‘behind’ it on the south-south west side


    38. I know at least one pilot on our side who milled down the cylinder heads on his rotary-engine scout, gaining the ability to climb, ‘a couple of thousand feet higher than the rest of the squadron


    39. The scout ship blew along like a 1960’s British sports car with a big American V-8 shoehorned into it


    40. And the scout ship

    41. Brendan turned the key, and the scout rumbled to life


    42. He figured it was used for casualties such as burn victims, in its official scout or military duties


    43. His father had announced that his son, Abelon, would go with the men as a scout


    44. He needed to convince his father to let him scout without holding on to him


    45. These teams scout each other just like big-league ball teams


    46. “Maybe I could scout it out before we decide what to do


    47. It was unnerving, more so for a soldier and doubly so for a Scout of the Royal Marines


    48. I asked Stinger here to follow the hidden ways and scout out the land


    49. Before that, he had marched all day and been out as scout


    50. “Some people should stay here and guard, and some people should go out and scout the other team’s location,” Will says














































    1. Hurrying outside the old badger scouted around, finding some tracks leading away into the undergrowth


    2. Dashing to the next intersection, Thesa scouted about and quickly discovered that another footprint had been scratched there as well


    3. Stinger asked that they stay put while he scouted


    4. been scouted before and the patterns well established, they were


    5. you must have seen it when you scouted the compound


    6. What I found as I scouted a little south of them is that


    7. She scouted the city the other day in the helicopter


    8. We scouted out the place with some rather weak binoculars


    9. He could have scouted the area, recognized me


    10. preceded us and scouted ahead by themselves only if I had

    11. kept eye contact with us, and sniffed all over as they scouted


    12. Then Lida scouted ahead as we manhandled him down the stairs to the back door


    13. Suddenly shy, he scouted around and discovered the security door to the courtyards


    14. He scouted the nearby vegetation and pulled some


    15. "These Capetown Mariners are a resilient group! We scouted them last week when we had a bye, and they looked sharp


    16. We scouted, found a good spot overlooking an area of two or


    17. all instinctively pulled their revolvers and quickly scouted the area for


    18. He scouted the foyer and noticed the reception desk was currently unmanned, odd for this time of day


    19. Vinny had scouted the Anderson residence


    20. “A little over three hours, I’ve already scouted out the area, are you ready to give it a try?”

    21. coffee and cigarette and then onto motel rooms Delgado had scouted out for a


    22. ” Hardin said as he scouted the meaning of Richter’s curling smile


    23. I took a bite, and listened to the guys’ disappointed stories about how they had scouted out various areas of the volcanic plateau, but had not had any luck with the meteors seen the night before


    24. I wonder whether it was a coincidence or if their control extended that far? They had also sat around for long periods while Jhamed had scouted ahead


    25. Twenty or so men scouted ahead of him, and he could hear the dogs’ excitement increase


    26. And scouted out each new area


    27. My fingers found the grooved in sill that I had scouted out earlier when we had arrived here


    28. Turning to the men who had come with me and Gavin I said, “Talin, you and Holon keep your men here until we’ve scouted the area out some and have found a potable source of water


    29. I scouted the warehouse for another door


    30. Alan had scouted the route several days ago, when the two of them had come to Kingsbridge and inquired about Tilly

    31. Fred had been scouted as a young man for a shortstop position on the Tigers farm team


    32. “When you scouted the Goldberg and Dunne houses, were you at the height of your powers?” Were you omnipotent then, shithead?


    33. David Hudson, who scouted and studied the street from the lead cab, was beginning to feel an unexpected sense of release


    34. At the Giant, Damon scouted on ahead to find some RC Cola and tortilla chips


    35. ‘I had it scouted when we got here


    36. Does not the belief in vampires rest for others, though not, alas! for us, on them? A year ago which of us would have received such a possibility, in the midst of our scientific, sceptical, matter-of-fact nineteenth century? We even scouted a belief that we saw justified under our very eyes


    37. These signs were: Lauriston’s mission; the abundance of provisions at Tarutino; the reports coming in from all sides of the inactivity and disorder of the French; the flow of recruits to our regiments; the fine weather; the long rest the Russian soldiers had enjoyed, and the impatience to do what they had been assembled for, which usually shows itself in an army that has been resting; curiosity as to what the French army, so long lost sight of, was doing; the boldness with which our outposts now scouted close up to the French stationed at Tarutino; the news of easy successes gained by peasants and guerrilla troops over the French, the envy aroused by this; the desire for revenge that lay in the heart of every Russian as long as the French were in Moscow, and (above all) a dim consciousness in every soldier’s mind that the relative strength of the armies had changed and that the advantage was now on our side


    38. He remembered that Lebedeff had said that he looked ill, and had better see a doctor; and although the prince scouted the idea, Lebedeff had turned up almost immediately with his old friend, explaining that they had just met at the bedside of Hippolyte, who was very ill, and that the doctor had something to tell the prince about the sick man


    39. These signs were: Lauriston’s mission; the abundance of provisions at Tarútino; the reports coming in from all sides of the inactivity and disorder of the French; the flow of recruits to our regiments; the fine weather; the long rest the Russian soldiers had enjoyed, and the impatience to do what they had been assembled for, which usually shows itself in an army that has been resting; curiosity as to what the French army, so long lost sight of, was doing; the boldness with which our outposts now scouted close up to the French stationed at Tarútino; the news of easy successes gained by peasants and guerrilla troops over the French, the envy aroused by this; the desire for revenge that lay in the heart of every Russian as long as the French were in Moscow, and (above all) a dim consciousness in every soldier’s mind that the relative strength of the armies had changed and that the advantage was now on our side


    40. My chum, a Londoner, and I scouted round

    41. He congratulated the nation that it was no longer an argument against a measure that it had been adopted by those called Federalists; he rejoiced that this slang of party was scouted from the House—that it was no longer a piece of artillery successfully wielded on all sides


    42. But, sir, with all due deference to the high ministerial officer who recommended the project, and likewise to the honorable committee who reported the bill, I may be allowed to pay it the compliment of saying that, in my opinion, previous to the reign of that tyrant, who, by a military force, aided by projects of this kind, has destroyed the sanctuary of justice, and has spread pillage, debauchery, robbery, and death, throughout the greater part of Europe; such a bill as that would have been scouted from this Hall as the production of a madman


    43. this bill would have been scouted as the production of a madman previous to the reign of Bonaparte, 380;


    1. They had, however, been scouting out a likely target and had chosen the slightly built young lady with the bulging money belt as the best source of the filthy lucre that they needed to maintain their lighter fuel and crack cocaine habits


    2. Daniel put his mind at ease quickly, “Juztin and Lady Jessica are scouting the area as we speak


    3. They had, however, been scouting out a


    4. scouting her every move and habit


    5. Just then Rosecare came down from a hill she had been scouting ahead


    6. Colonel Roosevelt, after working incessantly to place the navy on a war footing, raised the regiment of cowboys for scouting in Cuba


    7. Was it possible the creature was scouting the area?


    8. When the British saved Bekwai from Prempeh, the king furnished contingents to General Scott for scouting and transport


    9. ” She was not sure how Books had ended up in jail as well, but she had heard him throwing vocabulary words at Maldynado when she was scouting around the back of the building


    10. Hilier, a noted outdoorsman who studied wildlife biology at the University of Western Ontario, was scouting locations for a TV series when he became overdue

    11. Instead, he said they should set up camp where they were, while he went on a scouting expedition towards the village west of them


    12. Thomas assured him that his scouting


    13. They form core squads for scouting and penetration missions, but in reality they’re used like a bodyguard for the commander-in-chief


    14. Bruce heard a subtle birdcall he learned in his scouting days


    15. “But it’s always there, always scouting out our weaknesses, like ole Wormwood, with his uncle, Screwtape, in the wings advising him


    16. Wedge near the barrier opposite them, scouting the helicopter’s


    17. grams include wrestling and scouting


    18. related areas such as location scouting, shooting permits,


    19. From location scouting, shooting,


    20. camping, catering, location scouting, and even an airstrip,

    21. Joshua and Caleb would keep to their northern flank to warn of the whereabouts of any scouting parties that might have been sent out by their newly found larger enemy seeking to contact the troop of soldiers that should have been on Myserrah’s southern flank


    22. “It sounds more like a guard patrol! A scouting patrol is never more than half a ten


    23. My two Nung companies have been up there for the last two days scouting around


    24. No notice was taken as the two recounted the hazardous end to their scouting foray


    25. scouting parties that might have been sent out by their newly found larger enemy seeking to


    26. He's scouting the hills for a way that the Egyptians might be able to stop us


    27. notice was taken as the two recounted the hazardous end to their scouting foray


    28. scouting Rigby Road were Machinma was kil ed but they've


    29. Tress groggily came around, the pain was still intense but at least she could draw some breath now, luckily the scouting troops had not come close to her location, well not whilst she had been conscious


    30. scouting the area with Mary and Annah

    31. impression they were scouting on their own, then coming


    32. was able to keep up with the regular pace of our scouting


    33. I guarantee within two hours you’ll be their undisputed ‘lord’ and they your loyal henchmen, scouting through the forest, spying and setting traps for the unwary, learning about the stars, the land, their own strengths and their dependence on others…and I’m raving and repeating myself, aren’t I?’


    34. ‘I was scouting round to make sure you and Cador were OK when I saw her with her rifle levelled at the mattress you and Cador had dragged out onto the balcony


    35. can‘t be anything more than a token force, perhaps an advanced scouting party


    36. Some of John's disciples organized scouting parties to go in search of Jesus, but John forbade, saying: "Our times are in the hands of the God of heaven; he will direct his chosen Son


    37. “He’s scouting ahead and will be waiting for us at the first clearing


    38. ‘(3) Clearly the diabetes associated with one of the multiple personalities discussed in the last chapter is not caused by some malfunction in the body, since it disappears as soon as a different personality takes over! However I‘m not prepared at this point to give a scouting report on the law of cause and effect


    39. They would either send in a single ship to scout and tip off the defenses that they were scouting or they would arrive in force spread wide to divide their opponents


    40. "Was scouting around after the police arrived and you was all

    41. Most of which we’ve spent bouncing around by ourselves scouting planets for the colony service


    42. scouting the room for who she could talk to about herself


    43. explorations or traps come forward and form a scouting


    44. Coatl then dismissed them until they met later in the day, the next detail to attend to was a general meeting to inform the people of the conspiracy, organise runners to call our allies to a state of readiness, send scouts to visit the valley of Axber with specific instructions, the battle plans had been explained to Jodas and because he had done most of the initial troop training for this exact eventuality, he would be captain of the scouting party going to the valley, after it was explained to the people that the war had entered a new phase and we intended to test our warriors against the Teoti’s forces, a great cheer went up for the victory, they had no doubt, would be the prize of their warriors, I called an end to the meeting but instead of dispersing, the people gathered in groups analysing the meeting and discussing the outcome of various scenarios, although they didn’t make any of the decisions regarding the way the war was conducted, they were now more informed than they had ever been and had grown used to discussing the finer points of every engagement


    45. ‘’No, but I was hoping to find a table still available, preferably in an intimate corner: I am scouting the best restaurants in Madrid in order for Anthony Bourdain to choose places of interest for his next visit to Spain


    46. ‘’Vikings, bringing two women with them on a scouting expedition?’’ Replied Jean with a smile that finally reassured the old maid


    47. company and he was scouting out Shasta for gold in 1904 when he


    48. He had been on his way back from meeting with the head of the Sorcerers in London where he had signed the peace treaty with the Elves when his entourage was attacked by an Elven scouting party


    49. Her scalp would make a prized trophy indeed on his return from this scouting and raiding expedition


    50. scouting days, but whatever made that howl was no ordinary












































    1. ‘He was in cubs and scouts


    2. Also, he didn’t want any scouts seeing a wounded dragon


    3. was active in the Girl Scouts and sports, and was in beauty competitions and


    4. He wouldn’t even speak to the scouts and


    5. The scouts were foaming at the mouth at the


    6. threw near ninety, and had his own cult following of scouts


    7. He had sent two horse riding scouts ahead and one had just returned


    8. "There appears to be a problem with our scouts," Theodorous said, his thick white scar twitching on his face


    9. Papa will send horse scouts out here and here so that we know when they are coming


    10. Papa, get the scouts out ASAP

    11. The Imperial grabbed his armor and ran to the front of the camp to meet the scouts


    12. Still holding the banner, he quickly mounted a horse and cried out for the scouts to take him and a few others to the site of the massacre


    13. The scouts reluctantly agreed and moments after, the group was off into night - unsure of what further oddities they may find along with the remnants of tragedy


    14. Instead he stood over the table in the commander’s tent, eying the banner first brought to him by the scouts, hoping for some sort of revelation to strike in the pre-dawn hours of the morning


    15. Its design was identical to that found and recovered by the Imperial scouts near Bthalft, featuring the same black dragon with the red and bleeding or weeping eye upon crimson cloth


    16. All of the Legion had been put on alert, with scouts being specially informed to watch for the girl


    17. Talent scouts and agencies start to realise that 'the next big thing' is likely to be about nine foot long and covered in green scales


    18. I sent a couple of my scouts up on the roof tops but they saw the dead Turks so I knew you didn’t need a hand


    19. And so it was! Thus one of the most famous pseudo units, the Selous Scouts, was formed (an Army, not Police unit)


    20. * I want to state very clearly that the "Rhodesian / Seleous Scouts attack on the doomed SAP COIN patrol" has never been proved and the Rhodesians denied it vigorously

    21. The story is that the patrol was killed by the Selous Scouts to scuttle the truce


    22. they could have done it, meaning the Scouts had the ability to do so


    23. One Reconnaissance Unit which spring to mind is the Rhodesian Seleous Scouts which was probably the best use of pseudo troops in any war


    24. First, most of the contacts inside Rhodesia were orchestrated by the Seleous Scouts who would meet with other genuine terrorists groups and identify their whereabouts to fireforces


    25. As Brokin waited for his forward scouts to report back to him, he tapped the claws of one foot against a large stone


    26. Brokin halted his column as the forward scouts returned to report


    27. As far as I know they had no pseudo function as did the Seleous Scouts


    28. As with the Selous Scouts they use turned terrorists who were given a Hobson's choice on volunteering or not and expected to use his knowledge on his former mates


    29. Vlakplaas itself refers to a farm which was used as a safe house for his unit which used turned terrorists in a counter-terrorism way instead of the usual counter-insurgency as we saw with Koevoet and the Seleous Scouts


    30. It is the same method used by the Selous Scouts in reverse

    31. His old man swam the river, but only once, and with a couple of King Scouts rowing a rented dory alongside as he stroked across


    32. The Boy Scouts of America have traditionally adhered to and instilled principles and values in keeping with its (own) stated mission


    33. From my point of view, it is refreshing to see an entity like the Boy Scouts and an individual, Paul Nardone, (Westchester-Putnam Council Executive), joining forces and standing up for what they believe


    34. One of the scouts caught one on a line hung off a wooden footbridge that used to be there


    35. “Back then the scouts were all seventeen or eighteen years old


    36. Mike had seen groups of longshoremen such as that, singing ballads in unison, their arms draped over shoulders and mugs held high: men who were the backbone of the middle class, those who managed Little League teams and took Boy Scouts for outings in the forest


    37. members of the pack act as scouts, nurses, voyagers, or nursemaids


    38. But, we were prepared, like Boy Scouts


    39. Many former slaves worked as scouts or spies


    40. The compass was huge, compared to the ones in our scouts

    41. The Boy Scouts, of which I was a member throughout my school days, have recently removed the need for any reference to duty to God


    42. him from his scouts that the sickness started at the


    43. So, it was not just a small group of scouts she had run into


    44. They had already talked for a long time since the little group of scouts had showed up with Elior


    45. It was a moonlit night the fifth of June, when Laino's scouts returned with the message that they the next day would come out of the forest


    46. They had been out as scouts in Omyomatt and were returning to Ainatunarit’s Army


    47. In this hour, scouts appeared from Livyliar's army


    48. The scouts must have seen them on a far distance and they had made it back to the camp in safe time


    49. They would not give much information and most often fled when they saw scouts from Ainatunarit’s Army


    50. Nick of the scouts














































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    Synonyms for "scout"

    lookout lookout man picket scout sentinel sentry spotter watch guide pathfinder talent scout reconnoiter reconnoitre brownie explorer outrider precursor patrol vanguard

    "scout" definitions

    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event


    a Boy Scout or Girl Scout


    someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)


    someone who can find paths through unexplored territory


    explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody