How to Use stakeout in a Sentence

stakeout

1 of 2 noun
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  • The police were on a stakeout.
  • The drug deal was witnessed during a stakeout of the building.
  • Then, pull up the stakeout pole, flip it over and push to the next spot.
    — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
  • That Monday—the first day of the stakeout—proved to be the most active.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2023
  • There was a part of him that wanted the stakeout to just end.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • In 2012, Dumke and Joravsky wrote about a police stakeout of a grow house on the far south side.
    — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The advantage of the stakeout pole is stopping the boat quickly to make a cast.
    — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But cops hundreds of miles away were on to them thanks to a stakeout with a modern twist.
    — James Marson, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The area was so remote that during an 18-day stakeout, one agent saw a cougar kill a deer.
    — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • This was not Katie’s first rodeo with an after-school stakeout.
    — Jessica Knoll, Glamour, 20 Mar. 2018
  • On the last day of his stakeout, a remote camera Uman had hidden on a desk at the end of the hallway on the sixth floor fell.
    — Lawrence Mower, miamiherald, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The stakeout unfolded in the parking lot of an Olive Garden.
    — Jessica Contrera, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Despite daily stakeouts in the lobby, the press corps never saw him.
    — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 3 Mar. 2017
  • Rourke is finally cleared to go back to work, and he and his partner (J.D. Pardo) have been assigned to a stakeout.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2023
  • That was on full display Tuesday evening when Bolton answered the door during a media stakeout of his home.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The Capitol press stakeout grew in the midday sun outside the Senate’s east entrance on Wednesday.
    — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
  • There, the couple decided to race past the stakeout on their way to Dodi's apartment off the Champs Elysees.
    — People Staff, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The team also sets up a nighttime stakeout to investigate mysterious light on the mesa, and the team also sees two UFOs in the sky above the ranch.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 5 July 2022
  • Williams was captured during a police stakeout in May 1981.
    — Michele Corriston, PEOPLE.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Sure, there’s plenty of suspense, intrigue and red herrings, but there’s also stakeouts, injuries and jumping fences to catch, or even get away from, the bad guys.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • This time, the search required a long hike up Mt. Kerinci, the country’s largest volcano, and a nine-hour stakeout before the bird finally appeared.
    — Joe Trezza, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • After a short stakeout, police nabbed Kid Riviera at a South Side apartment building.
    — Mick Dumke, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2021
  • McGinnis said police arrested the gang members after a stakeout near the residence of the mother of the child of rapper Future.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 21 July 2022
  • His case attracted a large media stakeout outside the courthouse.
    — Kristin Hussey, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • But plans change when they’re forced to go on a stakeout together, allowing Samberg and Fumero to really build their chemistry.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Rare bird stakeouts are stressful for birders, especially for those who travel long distances for the chance to see the rarity.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Not long after, while Miller was on a surveillance stakeout in his car in a mall parking lot, his phone buzzed with an alert that the notorious market had been busted.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Investigators put the package back together and delivered it, setting up a stakeout near the St. Cloud home to see who would pick it up.
    — Sandra McDonald, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Vickers is accused of ambushing two officers who were on a stakeout Thursday night in Rochester.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022
  • The stakeout also pays dividends when the team tracks down the mysterious masked man, who puts up a fight but is ultimately captured.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2021
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stake out

2 of 2 verb
  • The next morning, the first camera crews were staking out their spots in the grassy plaza across the street from City Hall.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Davis, the Fairfax County police chief, said Jiang had staked out the church in the predawn on Sunday.
    — Jessica Xing, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Waves of Quakers, Germans and descendants of British colonists staked out more routes over the next 200 years.
    — Jayne Orenstein, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Bring a blanket and a picnic, or buy one from a food truck, and arrive early to stake out a spot and play lawn games.
    — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This means peace of mind upon boarding—no more scrambling to the train to stake out a spot among the hoards of other riders.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2021
  • For best viewing, Petro said would-be moon watchers should go out on Friday night to stake out a spot and look up and east.
    — Angela Eichhorst, CNN, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Anthropic is also among a crop of AI startups that have staked out a claim to putting ethics first.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Surprise Dad by packing his favorite foods, and stake out a spot at a local park.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Candidates on the Southwest Side stake out positions on the left, right and the middle 20th Ward: Ald.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Be warned: due to crowd convergence, staking out a picnic spot under the dreamy canopy may be tough.
    — Leilani Marie Labong, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Those policies and the funding cuts stake out hard-right bargaining positions for the CR fight to come.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • Guests can stake out a bench, spread out a blanket or wander the landscaped pathways during the reading.
    — Laura Randall, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
  • The iPhone was out there and people were developing these new apps, and this is a chance for Zuck to catch up, and to lay his stake out in the mobile market.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 21 July 2022
  • After staking out his decoys, Lane settled against the trunk.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 9 May 2024
  • Campers can stake out the rain fly to create a 7.7-square-foot vestibule for safely storing cycling gear and provisions.
    — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The person who posted on the social media account appeared to stake out the shopping mall where the shooting took place.
    — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 8 May 2023
  • Out of the park’s 13 campgrounds, roughly half are first come, first served—arrive as early as possible in the morning to stake out a spot.
    — Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 22 Feb. 2021
  • There are plenty of panel trellises with stakes out there that can accomplish the same goals.
    — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The junket dates were staked out before strike talks began, one insider said.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 13 June 2023
  • The city allowed cabs to stake out one spot per block, but taxi operators routinely parked as many as three cabs per block.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Jurado, the tenant rights attorney, has staked out positions that run counter to many of those espoused by the three politicians in the race.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • On May 9, law enforcement officers tracked the fugitives to a motel in Evansville and began to stake out the location.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • That’s a controversial position to stake out in these days of Brexit.
    — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Haack was staked out on a wooded hillside in the early morning hours of November 17, the lifelong hunter tells F&S, when a doe winded him and began to blow.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 20 Dec. 2023
  • People staked out their own places at the Kotel—the holiest spot in Judaism—and prayed with unusual personal space.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • To view the shower, NASA recommends staking out a spot far away from city and street lights—and being prepared with a sleeping bag, blanket, or lawn chair.
    — Simmone Shah, TIME, 3 May 2024
  • Grab food from inside the market and a frozen cocktail from the Suburbia beer garden before the film begins at 9 p.m. Arrive early to stake out the best spots.
    — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
  • Some are even aspiring to stake out a new, more modern style that’s unique to their particular region.
    — Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Along the northwest route, Israeli troops appear to have stopped on the outskirts of the Shati refugee camp, around three miles from the heart of the city, and have demolished buildings and plowed sand berms to stake out staging areas.
    — Dylan Moriarty, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Fans in lawn chairs — some who staked out prime backstop locations hours before first pitch and one woman who has been clanging the same cow bell here for decades — ring the field, while others sit on blankets on a berm down the left-field line.
    — Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024

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