How to Use reconnaissance in a Sentence

reconnaissance

noun
Definition of reconnaissancenext
Synonyms for reconnaissancenext
  • They did a reconnaissance of the enemy's position.
  • There are two helicopters available for reconnaissance.
  • The reconnaissance group had to survey the mountain and find a route up it.
    — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • In the Marines, infantry and reconnaissance jobs have been all-male.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Smith made something of a reconnaissance trip to Adelaide last week, the first stop on their next tour to these parts.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2023
  • That evening the team crouched round a computer screen in a dorm room to watch the drone footage as the reconnaissance officer briefed them.
    — Carlotta Gall Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The Mars reconnaissance orbiter, with a wingspan the length of a school bus, cost more than $700 million.
    — Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The next day, a team of four climbing rangers and an RMI guide traveled to the scene on foot following a reconnaissance flight over the crevasse.
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
  • That mission will be the first to conduct detailed reconnaissance of the icy moon.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The city’s reconnaissance had done little but confirm a lot of work was ahead.
    — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • And the question is, will the U.S. provide armed escorts for those reconnaissance planes?
    — CBS News, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The result is the U.S. has stepped up reconnaissance flights and warship voyages through the Taiwan Strait.
    — Matthew Lee, ajc, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In the film, Mac recounts building an IED and going to the small, red-brick mosque on a reconnaissance mission.
    — Malala Yousafzai, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The combat drones are able to strike targets with bombs and missiles and can be used for reconnaissance tasks.
    — Dusan Stojanovic, ajc, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Over the years, the walk has morphed into a reconnaissance mission.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The Army and the Navy had cryptography and reconnaissance units, too.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Oh, just launch a reconnaissance probe into space at one percent of light speed to meet the San-Ti fleet halfway.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Members of the team drove along the beach in ATVs, pretending to be tourists while doing their reconnaissance.
    — Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • The true purpose of the reconnaissance balloon is unknown.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Not long after the trade, Murray put feelers around the league for reconnaissance on DeRozan.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Infantry and reconnaissance groups have since been trying to push south from there.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The current version of the U-2 reconnaissance jet cannot be refueled in flight.
    — WSJ, 13 Feb. 2023
  • In rare moments, somebody from one of these little groups, as if sent on reconnaissance, would draw near to us.
    — Ishion Hutchinson, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Total company sales were their best since 2014, the year Horowitz went on that reconnaissance trip to the New York malls and joined the company.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2022
  • We had been directed by the Lebanese army—which maintains a reconnaissance and policing role in the south—to go to the Rest House, a gated resort.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Offutt Air Force Base’s 55th Wing has a new leader – the first woman to command the 80-year-old reconnaissance unit.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
  • And clear blue skies mean that soldiers are even more exposed to reconnaissance and attack drones.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • On the hunt again, the cop from Wuhan rolled into New Jersey on a secret reconnaissance mission.
    — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 23 July 2021
  • Philippi drove to an electricity substation, along with undercover FBI agents, to carry out reconnaissance, the bureau said.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Microsoft said that the attackers seemed to be looking for information about what the company knew about them—in other words, Midnight Blizzard doing reconnaissance on Microsoft's research into the group.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024

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