Sentence examples for probes the ground from inspiring English sources

The trunk probes the ground for God-knows-what and then curls back into itself like a jelly roll.

Most commonly the grey currawong probes the ground for prey, but sometimes chases more mobile animals.

Ibis use their long bills for probing the ground or mud.

If the 770-pound lander touches down safely after its 10-month journey, it will spend three months or longer probing the ground and monitoring the weather above.

Soon a second worker follows and lies on the ground, his head an arm's length from the marked spot, gently probing the ground with a stick.

Among other findings, the researchers report online in the journal Science that two crows fashioned tools from dried grass stems, a previously unknown tool, and used them to probe the ground, perhaps searching for ants.

These can detect not just footsteps ten metres or so either side of a buried cable, but also a low-flying drone passing overhead, vandals damaging a railway line, a terrorist burying a bomb beside a roadway or someone probing the ground trying to find a pipeline from which to steal oil.

The de-miner must check every alarm by probing the ground gingerly with the stick.

They are omnivores and often can be spotted probing the ground with their long blueish bills, in search of tasty spineless creatures, like worms, to eat.

Research partners are also looking at using this technique to help in probing the ground for oil or other mineral deposits.

For a couple of weeks Parcak led the team as they carefully probed the ground that she had first spotted thanks to a satellite hundreds of miles away in space.