scruter

L'armée des Saiyans scrutait le ciel.
The army of Saiyans scanned the sky.
La Dame reste ensuite un long moment à regarder devant elle comme si elle scrutait l’horizon.
After this the Lady looks in front of herself for a long time, as if gazing far into the distance.
Tandis qu’il scrutait les arbres, la forme et la substance de ces parois tendineuses étaient toujours visibles, comme des fantômes.
As he scanned the trees, the shape and substance of those sinewy walls clung to his vision like phantom limbs.
En 1781, l'astronome William Herschel scrutait le ciel pour mettre en évidence d'insaisissables parallaxes stellaires, quand il observa ce qu'il désigna comme une comète dans la constellation du Taureau.
In 1781, the astronomer William Herschel was searching the sky for elusive stellar parallaxes, when he observed what he termed a comet in the constellation of Taurus.
Il était là dans son uniforme et le plus intéressant était qu’il scrutait la rangée d'agents, pour être sûr que son supérieur ne voie pas qu’il avait une véritable conversation.
Here he was in his uniform, and the interesting thing was, he was looking up and down the row of officers to make sure his supervisor didn't see that we was having a real conversation.
La sentinelle scrutait l’horizon depuis la tour de guet.
The sentry scanned the horizon from the watchtower.
Le garde dans la tour de surveillance scrutait le champ avec ses jumelles.
The guard in the watch tower scrutinised the field with binoculars.
La nuit, William Herschel scrutait les cieux avec le plus gros télescope de son époque.
By night, William Herschel scanned the heavens with the largest telescope of his time.
Vous le savez mieux que moi, Galilée, grand homme de science italien, scrutait le ciel avec sa lunette astronomique.
As you know better than me, Galileo Galilei, the great Italian scientist, used to study the sky with his telescope from the earth.
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