Word Finder - exploring

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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.

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The action of the verb explore.

I was exploring and I fell off that bluff.

She's been exploring the area today.

His chocolate gaze was fixed on her face, exploring every inch of it.

It was simply a ruse to keep her from exploring that path and what lay beyond.

After exploring the halls and grounds for an hour or two, she returned to the main atrium, where she heard one of the sisters call her name.

But just remember, it's the country that I'm interested in exploring.

His hand slipped to her side, gently exploring upward until it reached her breast.

Before the Roman legions were sent into a new region to extend the limits of the empire, it was usual to send out exploring expeditions to report as to the nature of the country.

After exploring Persia, and again residing for some time at Mecca, he made a voyage down the Red sea to Yemen, and travelled through that country to Aden.

Visually exploring the interior of the stone cellar, she was unable to find any sign of windows in the wall.

In 1830 he was placed in charge of the division of instruments and charts, and in 1838 was appointed to command an exploring and surveying expedition in the Southern Seas, authorized by Congress in 1836.

Are they troubled, confused or frustrated at the prospect of you exploring further?

Featuring a number of exceptional restaurants nearby, hikers, kayakers and mountain bikers can take in a delicious meal after spending the day exploring.

Since the restaurant is located at a beach resort, it is a good choice for hungry people who have just finished exploring the beach.

Spend some time exploring the house.

This corps rendered invaluable service at the exploring and rescue operations after the explosion at Courrieres in March 1906, the most disastrous mining accident on record, when 110o miners were killed.

As early as 1801 Morris became interested in projects for improving the communication between the Hudson river and Lake Erie, and from 1810 to 1816 he was chairman of the board of canal commissioners, which after exploring the country prepared plans for the Erie Canal.

Barquisimeto was founded in 1522 by Juan de Villegas, who was exploring the neighbourhood for gold, and it was first called Nueva Segovia after his native city.

About the same time P. C. Schmerling of Liege was exploring the ossiferous caverns of the valley of the Meuse, and satisfied himself that the men whose bones he found beneath the stalagmite floors, together with bones cut and flints shaped by human workmanship, had inhabited this Belgian district at the same time with the cave-bear and several other extinct animals whose bones were imbedded with them (Recherches sur les ossements fossiles decouverts dans les cavernes de la province de Liege (Liege, 1833-1834)).

Additionally, beyond the basic sheer thong, you'll also find sheer boy shorts and sheer bandeau styles; all of which are worth exploring.

His fingers touched her chin and slid down her throat, exploring their way down to her bodice.

One beautiful day followed another and she gradually wandered farther from the house exploring the ranch - sometimes on horseback, sometimes on foot.

She checked the clock on the nightstand then the notepad listing the time of the flight she'd booked the afternoon before after exploring the mansion.

Though she wasn't hungry, she drank, exploring the black curtain shielding his memories as she did.

Deidre stayed for a moment then decided to leave, more interested in exploring the world than waiting long enough to see what happened.

I'm exploring the idea of seeing a specialist in Houston I heard about.

No matter what Katie or Alex said or thought, exploring the extent of his wealth was uncomfortable for her.

In less than two weeks, he'd aged, transforming from the lost youth she'd tried to take care of into a young immortal exploring his dark powers.

As Cabot was descending the stream to his settlement of San Espiritu, he encountered an expedition which had been despatched from Spain for the express purpose of exploring the river discovered by Solis, under the command of Diego Garcia.

Angered by this step, Ras Alula took prisoners the members of an Italian exploring party commanded by Count Salimbeni, and held them as hostages for the evacuation of Wa.

The exploring enterprise of the Spanish nation did not wane after the conquest of Peru and Mexico, and the acquisition of the vast empire of the Indies.

In 1795 and 1796 Matthew Flinders and George Bass were engaged on exploring work in a small boat called the " Tom Thumb."

But in the 19th century and after exploring work was so generally and steadily maintained in all directions, and was in so many cases narrowed down from long journeys to detailed surveys within relatively small areas, that i t becomes desirable to cover the whole period at one view for certain great divisions of the world.

Plymouth was the first permanent white settlement in New England, and dates its founding from the landing here from the "Mayflower" shallop of an exploring party of twelve Pilgrims, including William Bradford, on the 21st of December (N.s.) 1620.

An exploring party from Jamestown, under command of Captain Christopher Newport (c. 1565-1617), and including Captain John Smith, sailed up the James river in 1607, and on the 3rd of June erected a cross on one of the small islands opposite the site of the present city.

Thus, when his duties called him to Constance in 1414, he employed his leisure in exploring the libraries of Swiss and Swabian convents.

In 1896 excavations with the object of exploring the whole northern and eastern slopes of the Acropolis were begun by Kavvadias.

While Ponce was exploring Florida in 1513 the conquerors of Porto Rico had established their domination in the upper western portion of the island by a series of settlements.

In 982 the Norwegian Eric the Red sailed from Iceland to find the land which GunnbjOrn had seen, and he spent three years on its south-western coasts exploring the country.

Pike led an exploring expedition as far north as Leech Lake and took formal possession of the Minnesota region for the United States.

In 1819 Michigan Territory was extended westward to the Mississippi river, and in 1820 General Lewis Cass, its governor, conducted an exploring expedition in search of the source of the Mississippi, which he was satisfied was in the body of water named Lake Cass in his honour.

He found one of his brothers at Pondicherry, and embarked with him for Surat; but, with a view of exploring the country, he landed at Mahe and proceeded on foot.

Chemical, physiological and pathological research is exploring the secret of these more refined kinds of "anchorage" of molecules.

Owing to the disturbed state of the country, due to the presence of raiding parties from Nejd, Wellsted was unable to carry out his original intention of exploring the country to the west, and after an excursion along the Batina coast to Sohar he returned to India.

Travelling down from Damascus in 1875 with the Haj caravan, he stopped at El Hajr, one of the pilgrim stations, with the intention of awaiting the return of the caravan and in the meantime of exploring the rock-cut tombs of Medain Salih and El Ala.

Here and there in the Arctic province remains of old village sites have been examined, and collections brought away by whalers and exploring expeditions.

Captain George Vancouver (1758-1798), in charge of a British exploring expedition then engaged in mapping the coast (1792-1794), was sceptical of the existence of the river, but Captain Gray, undiscouraged, persisted in the search and on the 11th of May 1792 anchored in the river which he named Columbia in honour of his ship. The later claim of the United States to all the territory drained by the river was based chiefly upon this discovery by Captain Gray, who had succeeded where Spanish and British had failed.

The report of Captain Charles Wilkes, who visited the coast in1841-1842in charge of the United States exploring expedition helped to excite this interest.

A railway (part of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul system) was built from Sioux City to Yankton in 1872-1873, and in 1874 General Custer led an exploring expedition into the Black Hills, which resulted in the discovery of gold and the rapid settlement of a considerable portion of the west of the territory.

At his instigation exploring parties were sent out, and one of these discovered the Brisbane river which was named after him.