locate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with locate, each labelled with its topic.

• It took forty minutes to locate the guesthouse, since the street sign had been painted over years earlier.

  Travel

• Scouts use old postcards to locate the exact ledge where a famous landscape was shot ninety years ago.

  Photography

• Volunteers walked the estuary at low tide to locate every nest, marking each one with a numbered bamboo stake.

  Environment

• The app can locate a lost phone within a few meters, provided the battery held out.

  Technology

• The ultrasound helped the doctor locate the swallowed coin before deciding whether to wait or operate.

  Medicine

• Scouts travel for months to locate talent in gyms that no broadcaster has ever visited.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains locate. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

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