How to Use scouting in a Sentence

scouting

noun
  • Last year was the first time Jeremiah was at the top of the scouting report.
    Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 13 May 2022
  • So did Joey and Jesse Buss along with members of the team’s scouting staff.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The scouting process starts this week in Chicago with the combine.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 17 May 2022
  • The day before their hunt, Orwig went to the farm to do some last-minute scouting.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Guardians over Rays in 3: The scouting reports will tell you that the Rays are clearly the better team.
    USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The team said Snee will be involved in both college and pro scouting.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 10 May 2024
  • Even with the advances of modern scouting, some players just slip through the cracks.
    The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Travers, living in the states for more than two months, was in Chicago for the scouting combine.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 7 July 2022
  • Ducks’ fans might want to tune into that one for a little scouting.
    Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
  • On Tuesday, the NFL released the list of 2024 draft prospects who were invited to the scouting combine.
    Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The Penn State game was step one in turning into a type of player teams put at the top of scouting reports.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 27 July 2023
  • In our first week of scouting, the journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Since Hannah White was 7 years old, there was one name at the top of every scouting report.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Furphy, 19, is on a fact-finding mission at the week-long scouting event.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2024
  • The shooter and the sleuth both know open looks will become harder and harder as Kosakowski climbs to the top of scouting reports.
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • And tape of a lot of games that Ballard and the rest of the Indianapolis scouting department watched in person, to boot.
    The Indianapolis Star, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Before then, the NFL scouting combine – which is just two weeks away – will bring more attention to the pre-draft process.
    Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • This time, Saunders followed the scouting report and dropped into an almost one-man zone in the lane.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Here was Zappe’s scouting report ahead of the draft, courtesy of Field Level Media.
    Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • In 2019, Carter served as a consultant for the Dash’s scouting and recruitment.
    Mike Gramajo, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Run ‘em off, do a better job on closeouts and scouting report.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Now, paired with the recent imagery tool, these two features can be a deadly scouting duo.
    Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Baseball America gave Bradfield a grade of 80, the highest on the scouting scale, for his defense and speed.
    Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2023
  • His 8 ¼-inch hands put him in the second percentile of all receivers ever at the NFL scouting combine.
    Mark Daniels, USA TODAY, 1 June 2022
  • The best part of wedding planning isn't dress shopping, venue scouting, or cake tasting (though, that's up there).
    Michelle Gross, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This was before the days of social media and scouting services.
    Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Some scouting reports have questioned his top-end speed.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • There will be plenty more revealed on Hard Knocks, surely, about the Giants’ scouting process with Nabers.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 10 July 2024
  • As a boy, Ford got involved with sports and scouting, becoming an Eagle Scout, the only president to do so.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2024
  • For Mann, the location scouting process is all driven, like every other facet of the filmmaking, by what the script is trying to express.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 8 Aug. 2024

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