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Example sentences for "reconnoitered"

Lexicographically close words:
reconnect; reconnoisance; reconnoissance; reconnoissances; reconnoiter; reconnoitering; reconnoitre; reconnoitred; reconnoitres; reconnoitring
  1. The cavalry reconnoitered around the enemy's left, to the muddy and overflowed bottom extending back from the river immediately above Dover.

  2. When within a mile or so of the creek to which we have referred, one of the scouts reconnoitered it, and came in with the report that quite a body of Shawnees were on its banks, and beyond a doubt were waiting for the company to come up.

  3. For some time they reconnoitered the cabin cautiously.

  4. They set down the cage, crept forward to the river and reconnoitered the bank.

  5. In disguise, accompanied by a single officer in a Hussar dress, he reconnoitered one day.

  6. At that time he had reconnoitered until he had acquired quite a thorough knowledge of their defences.

  7. When I entered the room, I was ordered to stand by the door, until Captain Whiffle had reconnoitered me at a distance with a spy-glass.

  8. On this occasion, Coutel, an aeronaut, with 2 officers, reconnoitered the contending armies in an air balloon.

  9. Though our men carefully reconnoitered each one for fear of ambush, the precaution was needless.

  10. A few days later when we came to the head of a rapid I was busy sketching-in my topographic map and did not hear his twice repeated request to leave the boat while the party reconnoitered the rapid.

  11. The morning of the day on which Tarleton took possession of his plantation, he was near Sprinkbank, and reconnoitered the encampment of Cornwallis, which he supposed to be his whole force.

  12. The whigs arrived at night, and after concealing their horses in a swamp, Bratton himself reconnoitered the encampment, advancing within the line of sentinels.

  13. It was now dusk, and halting under a great beech, we reconnoitered the rocks on the knoll for some moments.

  14. With muffled oars, they often reconnoitered the British ships at night, and sometimes cut off boats that ventured from them toward the shore.

  15. General Howe reconnoitered the American works, and, while waiting for re-enforcements, which he had solicited from Gage, allowed his troops to dine.

  16. While marching through the open country, horsemen appeared, from time to time, on our flanks, but kept beyond the range of our guns, and reconnoitered us apparently with great coolness.

  17. Call reconnoitered Green's camp and the approaches to it.

  18. Call reconnoitered the enemy's position, and captured two of his mounted pickets.

  19. The position appeared well-nigh desperate, but the prince and his most experienced knights at once reconnoitered the country to choose the best ground upon which to do battle.

  20. He had thoroughly reconnoitered the premises, and was sure of success.

  21. He got his jointed ladder, set it very softly underneath the window where the feeble gas-light was, and felt about with his hands for the grating he had observed when he first reconnoitered the premises from the river.

  22. As he reconnoitered it through a glass from Copp's Hill, the tall figure of Prescott, in military garb, walking the parapet, caught his eye.

  23. Those on Charlestown Neck, being near at hand, had some time before been reconnoitered by Colonel Richard Gridley, and other of the engineers.

  24. The neighboring country had been reconnoitered to determine upon a plan of attack.

  25. When they failed to discover them, they separated and reconnoitered in different directions.

  26. When he returned he said that he had reconnoitered the ridge and the plain on both sides of it, and was convinced that the approach to the Ute camp was unguarded.

  27. On the previous day Platov reconnoitered with two Cossack regiments and two squadrons of hussars.

  28. The two clambered out and reconnoitered for help.

  29. The two travelers climbed out and reconnoitered but found the situation hopeless.

  30. The vessels, although experiencing some changes of weather, first sighted the islands of Maluco, after they had been reconnoitered by a large Dutch ship, well equipped with artillery, which was anchored at Terrenate.

  31. The captain having coasted along and reconnoitered Borneo, returned with his fleet to Manila, on account of the advanced season and lack of provisions.

  32. Having seen and reconnoitered all this, although not with impunity, because the enemy had killed six soldiers with the artillery and wounded Alferez Joan de la Rambla in the knee with a musket-ball, the Spaniards returned to the army.

  33. But one fragata, which carried one of the captains, went toward the enemy, because our men had not reconnoitered the land well.

  34. Stepping slowly, and keeping sharp lookout, I reconnoitered about the place; I was so excited that I didn't stop to drink.

  35. That is, I reconnoitered the enemy's camp, sir, and they're talking about us.

  36. We ought to have reconnoitered more, instead of thinking about stalking.

  37. On June 30th I reconnoitered the country about Santiago and made my plan of attack.

  38. The place formerly selected for going into action had been again twice reconnoitered during the wait, and a better place had been found about thirty yards beyond the ford of the San Juan River.

  39. Arriving near the village on Sunday, they reconnoitered the north meadow, for the purpose of selecting a place of attack upon the people, as they should commence their labor the next morning.

  40. His spies having reconnoitered it, he divided his men into three companies, the largest portion of which he led himself.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reconnoitered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.