Word Finder - explored

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To seek for something or after someone.

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To examine or investigate something systematically.

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The committee has been exploring alternative solutions to the problem at hand.

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To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

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It was around that time that the expedition began exploring the Arctic Circle.

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To examine diagnostically.

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To (seek) experience first hand.

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It is normal for a boy of this age to be exploring his sexuality.

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To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

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He was too busy exploring to notice his son needed his guidance.

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To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

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The boys explored all around till cold and hunger drove them back to the campfire one by one.

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To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.

The Kennebec was first explored to this point in 1607.

The hinterland of Liberia has been but slightly explored for mineral wealth.

Boyd Alexander, a British officer, further explored the lake, which then contained few stretches of open water.

A good feature is the map, which shows you the areas you have explored.

He took her arm with one of the hands that had explored every part of her body – or the body he thought was hers - not even a few hours before.

He dressed and explored the bedchamber, digging through her wardrobes and trunks.

Carmen ran bluntly manicured fingers through her cropped off curls as her tongue explored a new crack in her dry lips.

Previous to the extensive excavations referred to above, Crete had been carefully examined and explored by Tournefort, Pococke, Olivier and other travellers, e.g.

In reading this letter about Niagara one should remember that Miss Keller knows distance and shape, and that the size of Niagara is within her experience after she has explored it, crossed the bridge and gone down in the elevator.

Alex led them on a different route – through the wild country they rarely explored.

The western part of Virginia was not explored until long after considerable settlements had been made in the east.

These ruins were discovered by Adam Renders in 1868 and explored by Karl Mauch in 1871.

In 1622 the " Leeuwin," or " Lioness," made some discoveries on the south-west coast; and during the following year the yachts " Pera " and " Arnheim " explored the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Towards the close of the year 1696 this expedition reached the island of Rottnest, which was thoroughly explored, and early the following year a landing party discovered and named the Swan river.

Eyre also explored the interior north of the head of Spencer Gulf, where he was misled, however, by appearances to form an erroneous theory about the water-surfaces named Lake Torrens.

He explored the remains of Babylon, and projected a geographical and statistical account of the pashalic of Bagdad.

Bancroft's The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America, of which the principal authorities are the Noticias del Estado de Chihuahua of Escudero, who visited the ruins in 1819; an article in the first volume of the Album Mexicano, the author of which was at Casas Grandes in 1842; and the Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua (1854), by John Russell Bartlett, who explored the locality in 1851.

Father Francisco Paez acquired great influence in Abyssinia, and explored its highlands from 1600 to 1622.

In June 1741 he named the magnificent peak on the coast of North America Mount St Elias and explored the Aleutian Islands.

Minas Geraes was first explored by Fernando Dias Paes Leme between 1664 and 1677, though he was not the first European to penetrate it.

On the arrival of the ship at its destination he provided a substitute for his post and crossed over to the island of Luzon, which he explored.

That of the Lohit has been fairly well explored.

The social organization must be viewed and explored as a whole.

It's a fascinating country, just waiting to be explored.

Dampier's literary ability eventually secured for him a commission in the king's service; and he was sent on a voyage of discovery, during which he explored part of the coasts of Australia and New Guinea, and discovered the strait which bears his name between New Guinea and New Britain, returning in 1701.

De Leon seems to have explored the coast, to some degree, on both sides of the peninsula, and to have turned homeward fully convinced that he had discovered an immense island.

Florida was also partially explored by Ferdinando de Soto in 1539-1540.

In the summer of 1559 another attempt at colonization was made by Tristan de Luna, who sailed from Vera Cruz, landed at Pensacola Bay, and explored a part of Florida and (possibly) Southern Alabama.

Menendez then turned his attention to the founding of a settlement which he named St Augustine (q.v.); he also explored the Atlantic coast from Cape Florida to St Helena, and established forts at San Mateo (Fort Caroline), Avista, Guale and St Helena.

A portion of the outer wall has been recognized in a piece of primitive masonry discovered near the Odeum of Herodes Atticus; other traces will probably come to light when the northern and eastern slopes of the Acropolis have been completely explored.

The north slope of the Areopagus, where a number of early tombs were found, was also explored, and the limits of the Agora on the south and north-west were approximately ascertained.

The entire area of the summit was now thoroughly explored, the excavations being carried down to the surface of the rock, which on the southern side was found to slope outwards to a depth of about 45 ft.

In 1870 the Greek Archaeological Society undertook a series of excavations in the Outer Ceramicus, which had already been partially explored by various scholars.

The site, which had been accurately determined by Leake, was explored by Strack in 1862, and the researches subsequently undertaken by the Greek Archaeological Society were concluded in 1879.

One of the principal monuments of Hadrian's munificence was the sumptuous library, in all probability a vast rectangular enclosure, immediately north of the New Agora, the eastern side of which was explored in 1885-1886.

Somaliland was one of the last parts of Africa to be explored by Europeans.

He explored (1894-1895) the headstreams of the Shebeli, reached Lake Rudolf, and eventually descended the Tana river to the sea, his journey thus taking him through southern Somaliland.

Except so far as the excavation of the pillar is concerned the site has not been explored, and four small stupas there (already noticed by Hsuan Tsang) have not been opened.

The region between the lines of the two coastal systems is a much dissected plateau, imperfectly explored.

From Cuba went the expeditions that discovered Yucatan (1517), and explored the shores of Mexico, Hernando Cortes's expedition for the invasion of Mexico, and de Soto's for the exploration of Florida.

From the north this range, which is only partly explored, presents a somewhat regular series of snowy crests.

Maw, explored the central part of the Great Atlas with the special object of investigating its flora and determining its relation to that of the mountains of Europe.

Harris, who explored some of the southern slopes and crossed the Atlas at two points during his expedition to Tafilalt in 1894.

He crossed the Great Atlas in its central section, explored its southern border, and, in part, the Middle and Anti-Atlas ranges.

Two large islands (with others smaller) lie probably off the north coast, being apparently divided from it by very narrow channels which are not yet explored.

Nathorst explored the land between Franz Josef Fjord and Scoresby Fjord, where the large King Oscar Fjord, connecting Davy's Sound with Franz Joseph Fjord, was discovered.

Its site was explored in 1896.

Although the iron ranges in the north-east had been explored about 1860 and were known to contain a great wealth of ore, it was not until 1884 that mining was actually begun on the Vermilion Range.

Two years afterwards the upper course of the Mississippi was explored by Joliet and Marquette.

In 1679 Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut (Duluth), as agent for a company of Canadian merchants which sought to establish trading posts on the Lakes, explored the country from the head of Lake Superior to Mille Lacs and planted the arms of Louis XIV.