spotted

Example Sentences

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Jamie Spence, 52, from Writtle, near Chelmsford, was spotted by a police officer while sounding his horn outside Braintree station on 4 December last year.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

Twenty-two years later, in September 2025, the same whale was spotted alone in Hervey Bay, Australia.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

Nedoune, a Tuareg herder in his fifties, said he was fetching water two years ago in the northern Timbuktu region when a convoy spotted him.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

One and possibly two more whales were spotted, all also revealed on Rhodes’s laptop by the thermal images of their breath.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

It’s only when I’ve emptied the whole box that I notice something I hadn’t spotted before.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler