How to Use recon in a Sentence

recon

noun

• As per my recon, the water isn't deep, maybe up to the lower bumper.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2022
• With the last recon data in for #Harvey, it can be seen slowing to a crawl near the coast.
  — Leigh Morgan, AL.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• So the question is whether there were recon tours that were given ahead of time.
  — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 15 Jan. 2021
• None of the members of the tuxedoed recon party dove into the hole, a square about six feet across.
  — David W. Brown, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2020
• Know when to back off with your research and recon efforts.
  — Moneytips.com, cleveland.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• Al and Dwight go rogue on a recon mission for Ginny to follow a lead thought lost.
  — Nina Zafar, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2020
• In fact, it is even designed for two beds in back which could be very handy for a recon team out scouting in advance of troops, for example.
  — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 12 June 2018
• Anna van der Breggen was pulled from her bike by security during a recon of the Olympic course for Wednesday's race against the clock.
  — Dave Skretta, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
• The commandeered building that the recon teams are using as their base is a hive of activity.
  — Mac William Bishop, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2022
• And these ladies know their stuff, too: Shugarts, a former Marine who enlisted in the waning days of the first Gulf War, apparently did recon on the area.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 19 Aug. 2017
• This includes travel via cars, trains and/or planes; recon rides of the racecourse; and lots of eating, stretching, resting and prepping for the inevitable race.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
• Or maybe do a quick recon on Google, searching to see what the story is on available litters of hard-driving shed retrievers.
  — Tony J. Peterson, Outdoor Life, 24 Feb. 2020
• Thanks to a season shortened by the coronavirus pandemic, the Buckeyes are the ones doing recon on the Huskers for everyone else.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2020
• Campbell said there are probably also two parents who were camera-shy or away from the den on a recon mission.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2021
• In a pattern that was repeated, details about the next day’s challenge were only revealed the night before, so that candidates couldn’t go out and do recon.
  — Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
• Between the Terminator-esque ability to stay awake through reintroduction to stash away a knife and her air vent recon, Sae-byeok gets a clue for what the next round has in store.
  — Quinci Legardye, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2021
• Climate hawks have rightly celebrated the news of Ukrainians using ebikes and electric drones for recon or to raid Russian tanks.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2022
• The high-tech recon vehicles are a Stryker brigade’s cavalry—its fast-moving, far-seeing, hard-hitting scouts.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• Those working with him, including the recon team, are volunteers, too, with a good majority of them retirees.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 24 June 2020
• Former recon Marine, Derek Sisson has launched a new, smooth bourbon called ‘Merica.
  — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 3 July 2018
• Doing the recon, Bucklew noticed that a lot of ships began appearing in the harbor and townspeople began to cover an entire hillside.
  — cincinnati.com, 26 May 2022
• In major exercises, bike scouts allowed the recon units to achieve their objectives hours before schedule.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2022
• While Kidman and Theron had real people to look to, Robbie had to fashion Kayla from scratch, using only her recon to build the foundation for the modern conservative.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Jan. 2020
• Cersei is about as smart as Jon, who this season has cost Daenerys a dragon in service of the silliest recon mission ever, and in return won her exactly zero more troops to fight the White Walkers with.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2017
• Do social recon to investigate the online presence and footprint of current and potential clients.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• The recon flight also reported that the central pressure has continued to fall, another sign of strengthening.
  — Leigh Morgan, al.com, 12 July 2019
• Unmanned aerial vehicles may have gotten their start with the military, flying recon missions in Vietnam and dropping bombs over Afghanistan.
  — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 11 June 2018
• Some have been running recon, sending them addresses with vacant spaces.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2022
• The railgun shoots through surfaces, which sounds insane, particularly when compared with the recon scanner which can mark opponents.
  — Dave Thier, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• When Patton chose the Jeep as his recon vehicle for the upcoming landing in France, Sanza was recommended to be his driver, field mechanic and message conduit.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024