Sentence examples for Spotting from inspiring English sources

Spotting is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe the act of seeing something for the first time, or when someone or something stands out from the surrounding area. For example: I was out bird-spotting at the lake when I saw a rare species of duck.

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Spotting

noun

A spotted pattern.

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9am: walk Lake St Clair After getting the lie of the larder and spotting a gap in the angry-looking clouds, we attempt to interact with nature rather than just gawping at its beauty.

Occasionally, someone will stick their head around the huge wooden door of the church of St Peter and St Paul in Great Casterton and, on spotting the vicar, express surprise.

Refugee advocates criticised the amount of time that elapsed between spotting the boat and sending vessels to intercept it after the deaths were revealed.

We spent one day submerged 42 feet on a Padi Try-Dive, spotting an octopus about to devour its paralysed prey; another, ascending the 1,716-foot 1,716-footsummitofntain, dodging lizardSage Mountaintrek through its semi-rainforest.

Paddle across the delta, the sea winds at your back, spotting storks, herons and kingfishers along the shore (three hours from €25).

As soon as we were at the bottom we began spotting the rock art: strings of llamas, giant flightless birds (rheas) and, all alone on a separate crag, a puma.

Take the three-hour ferry to Kilda for wonderful wildlife spotting.

We stroll around with our cameras and notebooks, spotting usable buildings and interesting shots, painfully aware of being completely out of place, every bit as incongruous as the intruding Londoners in our story.

The pilots, spotting the technical issue, turned the plane around and landed without difficulty, a Flybe spokeswoman confirmed.

An MoD source told me that Jarvis, using his jungle training, played an instrumental role in training troops in the art of "Ground Sign Awareness" – spotting the tell tale signs of a device on the ground.

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