Definition: 1. A person employed to watch for something to happen. 2. Someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports). 3. Someone who can find paths through unexplored territory. 4. Explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody.
Use 'scout' in a sentence:
1. They scouted around for a beauty parlour.
2. The two scouts, swimming across the river, managed to keep under as the enemy's searchlight raked the surface.
3. Scout bees soon appeared at all five.
4. They sent two men out in front as scouts.
5. He's in the Boy Scouts.
6. There is a rumour, possibly spread by the revolutionary himself, that a major league scout once expressed interest in signing him as a player.
7. He dispatched scouts ahead.
8. Two men were sent out to scout the enemy's movements.
9. The enemy didn't detect our scouting platoon's movements.
10. The scouts started off on their mission on a stormy night.
11. Weather scout is predicting clouds for the whole day.
12. Remember the Scout oath?
13. The scouts infiltrated into the enemy positions.
14. The scouts are watching out for enemy patrols.
15. It's almost like what you looked for in a boy scout or a girl scout.
16. Do we have to scout for a new location?
17. The general landed on the scout for his not carefully observing the enemy situation.
18. They scouted around for more fuel.
19. I scouted round in the bushes.
20. The scouts took a prisoner to get information.
21. He wore the garb of a scout, not a general.
22. The scouts are active under the enemy's very noses.
23. He wore the garb of a scout.
24. She thought perhaps the Scout would still come to contact.
25. We went ahead to scout out the lie of the land.
26. He was a Federal scout.
27. The scout single-handedly penetrated behind the enemy's rear lines.
28. They scouted around for a shop that was open late.
29. When my son was in second grade I was the leader of his Cub Scout Den.
30. The boy scouts hiked out to the valley.
31. They were scout dogs. We used them all the time.
32. I have people scouting the hills already.
33. They were scout dogs.
34. The ASCOD features a Lockheed-designed turret for the Scout variant.
35. He's a great guy, a basketball player, you know. And a Boy Scout.
36. The scouts took cover in the sorghum fields.
37. Our scouts brushed aside in one breath all the mines laid by the enemy.
38. Joshua sends out spies to scout out the land.
39. Younger Scout, "How can I tell the difference between a mushroom and a toadstool?"
40. I wouldn't have time to scout the area for junk.
41. They scouted the area for somewhere to stay the night.
42. To earn a Plant Science merit badge, a scout can choose between agronomy, horticulture, or field botany.
43. If an ant finds an outstanding hole—such as the inside of an acorn or a rock crevice—it recruits another scout to check it out.
44. Climbing the mountain fatigued the whole scout troop.
45. They engaged in contact sessions, at the end of which the scout was removed in order to observe what her team might do.
46. Both my brothers were scouts.
47. He scouts for Manchester United.
48. The kids were scouting around for wood for the fire.
49. A team of four was sent to scout for a nuclear test site.
