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.
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Over the years, the walk has morphed into a reconnaissance mission.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The true purpose of the reconnaissance balloon is unknown.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Ahead of the assault that left him wounded, a Ukrainian reconnaissance had reported the area was clear.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The Marine was assigned as a student to the School of Infantry-West, which teaches combat and reconnaissance skills.
    — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • It was mostly designed for reconnaissance missions during the Cold War, and France is planning to phase it out.
    — Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Skimming at low level, the drone is less likely to be seen or shot at than the reconnaissance drones high above, though the high-pitched whine of its engines gives away its presence.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • The craft also is expected to serve as a reconnaissance platform.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Oleksiy Storozhez serves in an air reconnaissance unit in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
    — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 10 May 2023
  • Some were rigged only with cameras, for reconnaissance, some built with mechanisms to drop mines into the path of Russian ships.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The reconnaissance team struggled to navigate the shallow marshlands in boats.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Their first foray into the region took place in 1220, when a reconnaissance force traveled around the circumference of the Caspian Sea.
    — Nicholas Morton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
  • That morning his unit was doing reconnaissance about a mile away from the point of contact between Ukrainian and Russian troops in Bakmut.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Saint-Exupéry disappeared on a reconnaissance flight in July of that year.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Cheap, quiet and hard to reach, balloons have long been used for reconnaissance, including during the US Civil War.
    — Rebecca Choong Wilkins, Bloomberg.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The Russians were bombing the woods again with flamethrowers, a tactic used to both obscure the view of reconnaissance drones and to smoke out the locations of Ukrainian positions and equipment.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • The drone reconnaissance unit showed ABC News another video showing fire, smoke and destruction across an area of woodland.
    — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Even so, a Hurricane Hunter aircraft reconnaissance mission is planned for Thursday to take a closer look at the system.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 31 May 2023

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