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Example sentences for "scout"

Lexicographically close words:
scourging; scourgings; scouring; scourings; scours; scoutcraft; scouted; scouting; scoutmaster; scoutmasters
  1. A scout who was with Bradley states that, while they were fighting their way up through the willows, he passed three squaws who were hidden in a clump of brush.

  2. Although much of this shooting was at long range it was very deadly, and at almost every crack of their rifles a soldier, an officer, or a scout fell.

  3. Then I'll let you take the scout back to the Academy yourselves.

  4. I'm getting too old to make a solo hop in a scout all the way to Mars.

  5. Then the two cadets sat in the main deck of the small scout and waited, their faces showing their concern.

  6. Without replying, Astro made his way slowly and carefully down the length of the rocket scout toward the main drive rocket assembly.

  7. Roger and Astro had stolen a rocket scout and disappeared.

  8. My captive was the most daring Union scout between Vicksburg and New Orleans; these very Harpers knew that.

  9. The French and German armies use aëroplanes and cavalry patrols as their principal means of reconnoissance; the latter scout in parties of from six to fifteen men commanded by an officer.

  10. He is tonight in Amiens on official business and has with him only his scout car and its driver.

  11. In future every train is to be composed of five ambulances, one repair car, and one scout car, and is to be manned by an officer and thirteen men.

  12. After an early breakfast, we followed Mr. Norton's scout car through a deluge of rain as it proceeded at a dizzy pace toward the sound of battle.

  13. At dawn he is to go direct to Bouzincourt in his scout car and there meet his ambulances.

  14. At this time my faithful scout Card and his younger brother left me, with the determination, as I have heretofore related, to avenge their brother's death.

  15. Dances, races, and horseback riding filled in much of the time, and occasional raids from Indians furnished more serious occupation in the way of a scout now and then.

  16. As soon as the camp of my brigade was pitched at Booneville, I began to scout in every direction, to obtain a knowledge of the enemy's whereabouts and learn the ground about me.

  17. Several of the warriors had seen him in another direction, and an encounter of some kind had taken place between the celebrated scout and the Iroquois, with the result that Colonel Butler had now two less men than before.

  18. Such was the view of the young scout when he reflected upon the affair.

  19. It may have been that the young scout was so absent-minded, that he forgot about the respectable gap that existed a short time before.

  20. At the very instant that Lena-Wingo began to exert a gently increasing pressure, his keen sense of hearing told him the sentinel was moving, and the scout paused before the frail boat had yielded to the force.

  21. The whites and the Mohawk scout are on the river, and will try to return to the shore which they left.

  22. As there was no telling how long the red scout would be gone, it remained for the three friends to content themselves as best they could until his return.

  23. The admonition of the red scout was not forgotten, and when they spoke it was in whispers, while frequent pauses were made, in answer to the faintest possible "'Sh!

  24. The meeting was pleasant to all, for there was something in the presence of the famous and skillful scout that filled the three with confidence and hope.

  25. Any one who has tried it knows that it is next to impossible to accomplish much under similar circumstances, and the young scout was of the opinion that he was not making any progress at all toward the other shore.

  26. This was as the red scout wanted matters arranged; and when he grasped the paddle it was with a greater confidence than he had felt at any time during the night.

  27. Although it was too dark for it to be seen, yet a crimson flush overspread the face of the young scout again at receiving such a compliment from those fair lips.

  28. We have heard so much of the smartness of that Mohawk scout that I began to think there was something in him," said the principal member of the party, Rosa identifying him as the detested Butler.

  29. Johnson's fort, when suddenly they learn that their scout has lied,--Johnson himself is still at the fort.

  30. And if you can make it back to Mineola with a perfectly good passenger in the extra seat you'll qualify for scout work and most likely be over pluggin' Huns within a month or so.

  31. But I felt like a Boy Scout being sent to round up a gang of gunfighters.

  32. They could scout and forage, but at Bennington they were useless.

  33. But to the most inexperienced scout the second was plain enough.

  34. On reaching Monceaux--same precaution, the riders had skirted the village; but Roland was too good a scout to trouble himself about that.

  35. Presently the scout came to a sudden halt.

  36. Presently Peter found himself on the point of cannoning into the back of the Scout just ahead of him.

  37. After dinner you can scout for Hicks and if you find him, you may scalp him, but if he keeps going the way he went across that field, he'll be in Alabama to-night.

  38. The scout reported that he had gone carefully through the whole patch of timber, and that neither in the timber nor on the lake shore had he seen any fresh sign of Indians or horses.

  39. Tatanka would not be a good scout if he could not vanish in the tall grass.

  40. A good scout or a good hunter must be able to wait a long time, sometimes a whole day.

  41. You have been a scout for the white soldiers, and you have to forget your Dakotah superstitions.

  42. Every vessel in seven sectors, clear down to the scout patrols, is concentrating on this point, and the call is out for all battleships and cruisers afloat.

  43. The mouth of that enormous hollow cone was a ring of scout patrols, the smallest and most agile vessels of the fleet.

  44. I'll scout around and see if I can't fix up something that you'll be able to eat.

  45. He beckoned, and the second officer, whose watch it now was, read aloud: "Reports of scout patrols still negative.

  46. The story of his thrilling Scout experiences, how he was gradually changed from the street gangster into a First Class Scout, is told in almost as moving and stirring a way as the same narrative related in motion pictures.

  47. Never had the thought of the mountains and the lonely forest been so grateful to this scout before.

  48. Tom did not altogether relish the implication that a deserter might be a good scout or vice versa, but he agreed with Archer that the pair they had encountered would probably not "get away with it.

  49. When a scout from Maryland died up there, I saw how they did it.

  50. They had found, as the scout usually finds, that Nature was their friend, never withholding her bounty from him who seeks and uses his resourcefulness and brains.

  51. So that the last service for old Pierre Leteur was performed by an American boy; and at least the ashes of the home fire were left in order by a scout from far across the seas.

  52. Tom's scout instinct impelled him instantly to fall upon the ground in search of enlightening footprints, but there were none and this puzzled him greatly.

  53. The scout departed rapidly, to return a moment later with two other boys.

  54. Herman's a Heinie, but he's a good scout at that.

  55. He stepped out and looked round the corner of the little house, feeling inconsequently the thrill of a scout among hostile red Indians as described in a favoured romance.

  56. Storm-bound; or, a Vacation Among the Snow Drifts The boys start out on the wrong track, but their scout training comes to the rescue and their experience proves beneficial to all concerned.

  57. With the first streak of dawn the borderer rose and dug the Jumper from his hiding-place under a huge stump and ordered him to scout the woods for signs of the midnight visitor.

  58. He dropped behind his horse and drove the animal to a huge oak, where he left him to slip into the woods and scout toward the source of the murderous assault.

  59. With muttered imprecations a score of rifles were brought to bear on him, while several men ran back to the forest to scout for a hidden foe.

  60. As Sevier well knew the incident reduced the Indian’s value as a guide and scout to zero.

  61. By a Kentucky family it is claimed that Sequoya's father was Nathaniel Gist, son of the scout who accompanied Washington on his memorable excursion to the Ohio.

  62. On promise of amnesty and the withdrawal of the reward, he afterward returned and settled, with his followers, on the Canadian, southwest of Fort Gibson, establishing a reputation among army officers as a valuable scout and guide.

  63. This they attacked in the night, while the men, wearied by a scout of several days, were asleep.

  64. Revolving this, another scout rushed in and said, "Comrades, they are here!

  65. And now," said Mr Mountchesney, riding up to them and addressing Sybil, "I will send off a scout immediately for news of your father.

  66. Every scout must have felt his heart beating like a trip-hammer as the forward progress was continued.

  67. He had gotten over his first qualms of fear, and feeling ashamed of allowing himself to give way to such a sensation, and he a scout in the bargain, the boy was now going to the other extreme, and growing actually reckless.

  68. Each time he was thus punctured the fat scout would start up hurriedly, and open his mouth to give a yell, perhaps under the impression that he had been bitten by a snake, which reptiles he despised, and feared very much.

  69. Giraffe, as he started in to do as the scout-master recommended; for obedience is one of the first principles laid down in the rules by which Boy Scout are guided when they subscribe to the regulations of the troop they have joined.

  70. The face of the tall boy had become clouded more or less, and it was evident to the scout leader that Giraffe was busily engaged in pondering over something that did not look just right to him.

  71. The tall scout had persisted even when he met with all manner of discouragements.

  72. So that thus far the score was even, as regards numbers, though the fat scout was still "high notch" when the question of size was concerned.

  73. Thad, perhaps purposely mistaking this for a spirit of fairness that would do the tall scout credit as a true sportsman.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abhor; abjure; airplane; ancestor; announcer; antecedent; beachhead; bridgehead; bug; bushwhacker; case; censure; chaff; chuck; confront; contemn; contradict; course; cover; cruiser; decline; defy; deny; deride; despise; disapprove; disbelieve; discard; disclaim; discount; disdain; dismiss; disown; disregard; except; exclude; explorer; eye; eyeball; fleer; flout; follow; forebears; forefront; forerunner; forswear; front; frontiersman; fugleman; gaze; gibe; guide; harbinger; herald; ignore; innovator; jape; jeer; leader; line; lookout; lout; measure; messenger; mock; observe; operative; outpost; overpass; pathfinder; patrol; patrolman; peep; perambulate; picket; pioneer; ply; point; precedent; precursor; predecessor; quiz; rally; range; rebuff; recant; reconnoiter; refuse; regard; reject; renounce; repel; repudiate; repulse; revile; ridicule; roundsman; scoff; scorn; scour; scout; sentry; slam; slight; sneer; spearhead; spotter; spurn; spy; sweep; swipe; taunt; track; transit; travel; traverse; twit; van; vanguard; vessel; view; voyage; waive; watch; watcher; watchman


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    scout master; scouting parties; scouting party