How to Use spotter in a Sentence

spotter

noun
  • When you lift weights, you should always have a spotter.
  • Those who act in the field for Skywarn are known as spotters.
    — Jacob McAdams, Houston Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Same with the spotters high above watching it all unfold.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026
  • LaBeaud, meanwhile, would hop in the spotter’s car and speed off.
    — John Simerman, NOLA.com, 9 Oct. 2020
  • No bench or spotter required—just take a heavy barbell and push it over your head.
    — Anthony J. Yeung, Esquire, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Becker, a gung-ho plant spotter, was hoping for a bumper year.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Joey Logano didn’t need to look in his rear-view mirror or get help from his spotter.
    — Bob McManaman, azcentral, 8 Mar. 2020
  • Since then there has been enough legal back-and-forth to bore the most ardent plane-spotter.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Each team has a spotter who determines the release point from the plane.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
  • In the open back of a pickup truck, two wildlife spotters stood in front of me, whirling their flashlights.
    — Mihir Zaveri, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Credit to her crew chief, spotter and team owner for handling it like adults.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
  • One partner acts as the base and the other as the flyer (along with a spotter).
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Volunteer spotters work with the same rider for all five days.
    — Aegis Staff Report, baltimoresun.com, 20 June 2019
  • Both instances gave me pause as far as the league’s concussion spotter and how that worked.
    — Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • In theory, a spotter at the rope’s base helped ease the climber’s ascent.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2018
  • The county had spotters out tracking the storms, Klinger said.
    — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2026
  • According to the spotter pilots, there are more bluefin around.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2019
  • Nantz later blamed the miscall on a spotter’s error.
    — Andrew Marchand, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Any drone or spotter on the ground with a laser-designator can sparkle a target.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • Over the years, celebrity spotters and regular folks alike have craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the pop star.
    — Paul Edward Parker, The Providence Journal, 28 Mar. 2026
  • There is a spotter down below double-checking to make sure the names are in the proper spot.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The day after our first sighting, a spotter found a mother and two cubs resting high on a slope.
    — Maggie Shipstead, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Then the spotter would hop back into his canoe, and the process would be repeated at the next stop.
    — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
  • These kinds of styles were there to reduce any friction in my workout and then got out of the way, like a good spotter.
    — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The stock market’s steady upward slog made bulls out of even the most bearish bubble spotters.
    — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
  • As the set winds down, the spotters wordlessly slide off a plate apiece to set up their brother for a few cool down reps.
    — Mike Piellucci, SI.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • But a spotter on a moped half hidden by a roadside tree called the miners on his mobile phone and warned them.
    — Brendan Hoffman, National Geographic, 31 Jan. 2017
  • Hrabik might be on the bubble as a 20-year-old import two-spotter.
    — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Field-mowing crews had been urged to have a spotter watch for sparks and ignitions, Davis said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022
  • He is always attached to a line and monitored by human spotters and sonar.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025

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