Sentence examples for make a reconnaissance from inspiring English sources

Robinson decided to make a reconnaissance run into Bury Park, where most of Luton's Muslims live.

A group of men were sent to Hill 204 to make a reconnaissance, to report on conditions there as well as to bury the dead.

The good news was that Ed, Paul, and Karma Tenzin of the Council for Renewable Natural Resources were able to make a reconnaissance collection of samples from the ancient juniper trees growing at the timberline below Tampe La.

Byng ordered Mercer to make a reconnaissance of the front line and draw up a plan to overrun the more dangerous German positions in a local attack.

I know he made a reconnaissance mission recently.

"The Casa 212 aircraft was making a reconnaissance flight at the time of the accident before hitting a mountainside," the statement read.

Two small ice-breaking steamers, Taymyr and Vaygach, built expressly for the expedition at St. Petersburg in 1909, made a reconnaissance foray into the Chukchi Sea in the fall of 1910.

According to a report in the New York Times earlier this year, a Team USA catering representative made a reconnaissance mission to Beijing, where he saw a chicken breast, a mere half of which measured 14 inches.

In March, he made a reconnaissance trip by motorcycle to Paktika Province in Afghanistan from Wana, the main city in South Waziristan, in Pakistan's tribal areas, to make sure the route was safe for his men.

Along with a young fellow-magistrate named Gustave Beaumont, he somewhat disingenuously proposed making a reconnaissance of American prisons with an eye to writing a report on prison reform for the new government.

BEIJING — When George Mallory made a reconnaissance trip to the gargantuan glaciers at the foot of Mount Everest in Tibet before his ill-fated attempt to climb the mountain, he took photographs and noted the splendor: "Here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony," he wrote.