He remembered himself standing in much the same place, trying to detect.

She stared, trying to detect any change on the far side of the camp, and felt a growing uncertainty.

With one hand on the center of his cold chest, she tried to detect a heartbeat.

He will look at a piece of equipment to try to detect signs which indicate what is wrong.

Sometimes he closed his eyes, playing a game, and tried to detect the smell of the different objects in the room here.

The amount you are trying to detect is a very small percentage of the water and food in the pot.

How would I go about trying to detect if they're doing it?

The signal is the thing you are trying to detect.

I stood very still, trying to detect where this promising sound came from.

"We've got company," he said, looking down and trying to detect any sign of what had touched him.