How to Use reconnaissance in a Sentence

reconnaissance

noun

• They did a reconnaissance of the enemy's position.
• There are two helicopters available for reconnaissance.
• Not all are armed and some are to be used for reconnaissance.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Muyembe has reconnaissance units on the frontline of the war against new pathogens.
  — Sam Kiley, CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
• 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
• The proprietor, Don Hibbs, welcomed us and over a glass of bourbon took us on a map reconnaissance.
  — Lionel Atwell, Field & Stream, 26 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Kadena also hosts a number of fighter jets and reconnaissance aircraft.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
• Green Berets conduct commando-style raids to attack enemy targets as well as reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines and in some cases training of foreign militaries.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 10 Feb 2025