"From that point forward, everywhere we went in Brazil we were scanning for the açaí bar," Nichols says.
As they streamed out, many started scanning for the helpers holding lollipop signs bearing the names of sponsors that would lead them back to their hotels.
Instead, Dr. Pollak said, they may see anger when it is not there, or spend so much time scanning for the signs of impending rage that they miss other important social clues.
She captures, exactly, what it's like to start high school, to stride into the auditorium wearing a "daisy-spattered dress, scanning for the right place to sit," while jockeying with schoolmates to establish a persona and a self.
Widely reported scuffles in stores in 2014 and the increasing ease of scanning for the best deals via the internet have encouraged bargain hunters to shop on the web.
We spend the expanse of our days — even those of us paid to keep our eyes glued to the nonelectronic page — gazing into our phones, scanning for the next text, e-mail or tweet.
Whether there ever was a stricken plane, or any fugitive pilot, was unresolved well into the night, when soldiers with rifles were still firing into the riverbank bulrushes and setting them afire, and powerboats with frogmen were still cruising the river, searchlights scanning for the pilot.
So it went all along the Mississippi on Wednesday, through Iowa, Illinois and Missouri, north of St . Louis People marching along levees and flood walls, scanning for the slightest puddle or hint of pressure in the sand, waiting for what might come.
The assault was coming from buildings on both sides of the street, and Bradley, standing in the commander's turret, was "scanning for the enemy" through the sight of his rifle, to give his men some idea of where to return fire, but before he had a chance an RPG hit the right side of the vehicle.
(Its precise shelf mark — the bibliographic index that scholars use to cite rare papers — is London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero A.x., which originally meant that you could find it, in Sir Robert Cotton's library, by locating the bookshelf under the bust of Nero, then scanning for the tenth book on the top shelf).
A large neighbor femtocell list causes unnecessary scanning for the handover.
