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
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