How to Use exploratory in a Sentence

exploratory

adjective

• Tyler Brown made an exploratory visit to the state in January 2021, went to a Free State meet-up at a pub, and soon was sold.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
• The team used radar to track each bee’s exploratory flight pattern for between 20 minutes and three hours.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2023
• That further reduced the search area to about 8 acres, where long exploratory trenches were dug last year.
  — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2022
• That further reduced the search area to about 8 acres (3 hectares), where long exploratory trenches were dug last year.
  — Mark Scolforo, ajc, 28 Oct. 2022
• The companies have already spent more than $2 billion on exploratory work and to prepare for the project.
  — Clifford Krauss Tamir Kalifa, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• While the visuals may be lacking, the structure and gameplay of the new exploratory title are not.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• Payback, cavemen, mental illness, an exploratory crawl through the dark: the starter for the Cage sourdough.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• That’s because the FBI sent a version of the study directly to them in a bulletin, which was not labeled exploratory.
  — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
• This fragrance is a call to the wild, fitting for those who appreciate a scent that’s both bold and exploratory.
  — Jose Ryller, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• If all goes well, the SLS rocket will launch the Orion capsule to a 42-day exploratory journey into space.
  — Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2022
• The firm that would do the mining is Canada’s The Metals Co., which has received several leases to do exploratory work in the area.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2022
• Researchers had been combing the area and narrowing down the search site with exploratory search trenches.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2022
• Why are these falcons so clever and so boldly exploratory?
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Along with the actual slime, this set comes with cupcake charms so your kids can indulge in ASMR exploratory play.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 3 Oct. 2023
• The sessions were so exploratory that the band found themselves, at one point, recording the sounds of shattering icicles on the title track.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2022
• Smith had surgery last month on an undisclosed injury, but it was thought to be exploratory to fix a previous surgery.
  — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Nov. 2021
• Thank you for joining us on our exploratory adventures through the wonders of space and science.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 Nov. 2021
• Here’s a sampling of strangeness found on an exploratory visit to the Tillman’s Corner store.
  — al, 27 July 2022
• But that doesn’t mean there aren’t pleasures in to be had when Philomena Cunk embarks on a journey of exploratory breadth.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2023
• Today’s grand earth trine has you on an exploratory mission.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
• District officials will continue the exploratory process seeking out bids for the work ahead of a school board vote whether to approve the project.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
• All of these tropes are addressed in this movie, almost in an exploratory or academic way.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2022
• While the researchers think these tests suggest a shark would be tempted to take an exploratory nip out of a cocaine bale, not all shark researchers are taking the bait.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
• There will be a lot less exploratory behavior if the ant raft is spinning in response to centrifugal or shear forces.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2022
• Part of that quest is keeping things interesting and exploratory under the sheets.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 8 Nov. 2022
• The Grammys have seen so many legendary moments over the years, and that’s due to music being an exploratory industry.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 3 Feb. 2024
• Rupp oversaw exploratory drilling in the canyon that established four productive wells, each more than 1,000 feet deep.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2022
• The idea was to make a more exploratory album reflective of the many different modes of singer Adrianne Lenker’s songwriting.
  — Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 11 July 2022
• Robert Plant’s feckless pliancy throughout is hard to square with the exploratory nature of his later work.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
• As a leader in exploratory missions, TK will be remembered for braving the unknown for the sake of our country’s future.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024