Use search in a sentence
Sentences starting with search
- Search even for their bodies is in vain. [5]
- Search for the supposed father had been continued by Lackland, Hawkins and himself for several years, but Laura was not informed of it till after the death of Hawkins, for fear of raising false hopes in her mind. [5]
- Search the whole house from top to bottom! [10]
- Search did not discover them. [11]
- Search the Scriptures. [8]
- Search one out. [5]
Sentences ending with search
- The resources of the Public Library of the place and his own private collection were put in requisition to furnish him the singular and widely scattered facts of which he was in search. [6]
- Between it and the main mass of the mountain rose numerous single peaks, like a camp of granite tents, or a wildly tossing sea suddenly turned to stone; behind these blocks ran the streamlet, which he found after a short search. [10]
- For he knew that rustlers, being riders, would not make much of a day's or night's absence from camp for one or two of their number; but when the missing ones failed to show up in reasonable time there would be a search. [13]
- I have already spent everything I possessed in the search. [10]
- Well, if they should come here, and you said, Pierre is not here, even though I was in the next room, they would believe you, and they would not search. [11]
- Striking a match, she found a candle, lighted it, and then began her search. [11]
- That night she sat in her room till all was still, and then she stole into the garret and began a search. [5]
- You know the poor result of all my search. [12]
- The longest part of his task was ransacking the treasurer's office; Nilus himself had to conduct the search. [10]
- Nightfall found him leg-weary, half-famished, and his desire as far from accomplishment as ever; so he supped at the Tabard Inn and went to bed, resolved to make an early start in the morning, and give the town an exhaustive search. [5]
Short sentences using search
- He would search no longer. [11]
Sentences containing search two or more times
- In the middle of the lawn she stopped short once as if in doubt what to do--as a thought-reader pauses in his search for the mental scent again, ere he rushes upon the object of his search with the certainty of instinct. [11]
More example sentences with the word search in them
- She carefully followed with her fingers the groove in which the stone lay, and having recalled its shape by her sense of touch, she began her search anew. [10]
- Egad," he added with a laugh, "there would be no more walking the streets at night in search of adventure for you. [9]
- Telling his sister where they had been placed, every morning she would go in search, and never fail of finding each stuck through the heart of a deer. [5]
- The loss of what we possess nearest and dearest to us in this world, produces an effect upon the character we search out what we have yet left that can support, and, when found, we cling to it with a hold of new-strung tenacity. [14]
- Then he began what seemed a never-ending search among the papers on his desk. [9]
- Her own spirits were none too good, and Miss Lucretia's eye, in its search for truth, seemed to pierce into her very soul. [9]
- As the days went by and nothing happened to break the monotony of his waiting and his fruitless search, he became despondent. [4]
- Then Herr Ueberhell went back to his search for the unknown element which had given to his son's elixir the power that had been exhibited in such wonderful fashion. [10]
- Mr. Tooting, as we know, had abandoned the law office of the Honourable Hilary Vane and was now engaged in travelling over the State, apparently in search of health. [9]
- They wound this way and that, far down into the secret depths of the cave, made another mark, and branched off in search of novelties to tell the upper world about. [5]
- His leather case was swung over his shoulder, and with his glasses he swept the lake in search of the Scimitar and other vessels of a like unamiable character. [9]
- There, however, madame was stayed in her search for information. [11]
- The town tax was so strictly enforced at that time at all the gates of Berlin that even hacks entering the city were stopped and searched for provisions of meat or bread--a search which was usually conducted in a cursory and courteous manner. [10]
- But Nick, who was plainly in search of something he did not find, hurried on. [9]
- A diligent search was made, but without result. [5]
- However, another search was instituted a year later, and this had better success. [5]
- If Mark Twain was hard up in search of, a French "chestnut," I might have told him the following little anecdote. [5]
- At first it was all beautiful and grand, and it seemed noble to search for those others who had gone into that land and never come back. [11]
- From her willowy walk a sophisticated observer would have hazarded the guess that her search for an occupation had included a course of lessons in fancy dancing. [9]
- Ye give a value for all loss in age, When feebled eyes search for forgotten springs; Ye fan the breeze that turns the moulded page, And carry back the soul to ardent things. [11]
- At first he used regularly to try the bars of the window, and search the wall as though he thought my devices might be found there. [11]
- Pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as if in search of something. [2]
- It was the unconscious tribute, too,--slight as was its exhibition,--of the man whose life has been spent in the conquest of material things to the man who has the audacity, insensate though it seem, to fling these to the winds in his search after ideals. [9]
- He was in town, had ridden in within an hour, and his brother, who was in the group, would go in search of him. [4]
- A person accustomed to watch the faces of those who were ailing in body or mind, and to search in every line and tint for some underlying source of disorder, could hardly help analyzing the impression such a face produced upon him. [6]
- She asked Frank to tell her brother to give up the search because if he didn't she would suffer in a way too horrible to tell. [13]
- My eyes seemed to search for it also, and to find it in the torch which stuck out, softly sputtering, from the wall. [11]
- I was unable to meet this argument, and the result was that when I was away from her I too began to "thrash around" among the books in a vain search for a radical with a convincing and satisfying philosophy. [9]
- The countess tried to make him talk, but he went on naively looking around through his spectacles as if in search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. [2]
- Murray Bradshaw returned to his hotel, and, going to his chamber, summoned all his faculties in state council to determine what course he should follow, now that he had the object of his search certainly within reaching distance. [6]
- But it occurred to him that he might as well have the marble he had just thrown away, and therefore he went and made a patient search for it. [5]
- She began talking to her mother of the prelate's absence; Susannah, too, was uneasy about it, particularly since she had heard that the old man had come home ill and that his servant had been out and about in search of a physician. [10]
- So he prepared to go in search of the cart, but the landlord of The Pike met him at the door, and, angrily asking what ailed him that day, ordered him to fetch the Erbach, more of which was wanted inside. [10]
- Ann had consented to follow this gracious bidding, if only she might give tidings of where she would be to those her friends who would for certain come in search of her. [10]
- Is it "low" to dwell upon these things of the senses, when one is on a tour in search of the picturesque? [4]
- He was moved to capture the skiff, arguing that it might be considered a ship and therefore legitimate prey for a pirate, but he knew a thorough search would be made for it and that might end in revelations. [5]
- Laura had gone to be married; but Laura had cautioned her; she did not want to be thought of, she said, as going in search of a husband; let the news come back after she was married. [5]
- I had several times come to the saloon in the days of my apprenticeship in search of some judge or official, and once I had run down here the city auditor himself. [9]
- From that time till the end of the destruction of Moscow no one of Bezukhov's household, despite all the search they made, saw Pierre again or knew where he was. [2]
- I have met thousands of mourners in these melancholy scenes, which, I can assure you, are the very best school for training any one who desires to search the hearts of his fellow-creatures. [10]
- In their search they were obliged, as March complained, to the acquisition of useless information in a degree unequalled in their experience. [8]
- She said, would they not search the house? [11]
- Tom said that they must have been missed long ago, and no doubt the search was going on. [5]
- The slight resistance the vessel might have offered was relinquished when Archibius's helmsman shouted that the Epicurus did not belong to the royal navy, and had come in search of news. [10]
- The search for the unfortunate men went on. [11]
- They save themselves the toilsome search for the model which others so successfully used before them, and bronze and marble still keep wonderfully well. [10]
- He took down the second volume of the Corpus Juris Civilis, turned the leaves over mechanically, as if in search of some title, and replaced it. [6]
- It was all the same, for he was in search of suffering, and suffering, like weeds, grows on every road. [10]
- This done, seeing the Salvage superfluities beginne to decrease (with some of his workmen) shipped himself in the Shallop to search the country for trade. [4]
- Boris quietly left the room and went in search of Natasha. [2]
- The mass of the people commenced a systematic search for the dead body, while Wickersham was despatched to arrest Henry Trailor at the Grove, and Jim Maxcy to Warren to arrest William. [7]
- Let me search the Ninety-Nine for contraband,--that's all I've got to do with,--and then I can keep quiet about the rest. [11]
- After a time the mutineers consented, the bond was agreed to, and the search went on. [11]
- Her husband was the most powerful Frank in all the Sultan's dominions, and it was a joy to her to see with what diligence he made search for the lost youth. [10]
- She was in the midst of this eager search when she awoke. [6]
- So he put the lantern behind him, and began to search with his boots instead of his eyes. [5]
- Mrs. Pomfret, knowing the income, after an exhaustive search decided upon Leith as the place to build her villa. [9]
- In ancient days the high, the humane, in search of cure for poison, poisoned themselves, and then applied the antidote. [11]
- Wildcats might scale the fence, but no coyote could come in to search for prey, and no rabbits or other small game could escape from the valley. [13]
- Let them search the depths of my soul. [10]
- Therefore Venters quit the dark slit which baffled further search in that direction, and rode out along the curved edge of stone where it met the sage. [13]
- I intend in the course of this vacation to search for the cave; and, if I find it, my readers shall know the truth about it, if it destroys the only bit of romance connected with these mountains. [4]
- This then was the Chapter Coffee-house, which, a century ago, was the resort of all the booksellers and publishers; and where the literary hacks, the critics, and even the wits, used to go in search of ideas or employment. [14]
- That search for the aim of life had not merely disappeared temporarily--he felt that it no longer existed for him and could not present itself again. [2]
- There's one there that you will find if you search for it. [5]
- Certain it is that the system of education in vogue in the 70's and 80's never contemplated the search for natural corner-stones. [9]
- All the expeditions that she sent in search of him were fruitless; but she knew from the glass that he had become apprentice to a stone-mason and had hard work to do. [10]
- The clergyman said that he had felt uneasy about her, had gone to her room, and was just issuing in search of her. [11]
- It seems strange that he did not search for the English colony, but the adventurers of that day were independent actors, and did not care to share with each other the glories of discovery. [4]
- When they had testified, she rose and reviewed their testimony in a few words, pronounced it vague, confused, and of no force, then she placed the Paladin again on the stand and began to search him. [5]
- This and the tender, with men and divers, were to go in search of the wreck under the command of Bucklaw and the captain of the Swallow, whose name Phips did not mention. [11]
- One hour and ten minutes before Mrs. Clemens died I was saying to her "To-day, after five months search, I've found the villa that will content you: to-morrow you will examine the plans and give it your consent and I will buy it. [5]
- The old man takes in the "Blue Ridge Baptist," a journal which we found largely taken up with the experiences of its editor on his journeys roundabout in search of subscribers. [4]
- That evening at supper Fisher was missing, and so next morning some ineffectual search was made for him; and on Tuesday, at one o'clock P.M., William and Henry started home without him. [7]
- I said to Sullivan, 'Put down your gun and search these men,' which he did. [5]
- In conversation I studiously and persistently described the robbers as tramps, camp followers; and among this class the people made useless search, none suspecting the soldiers but me. [5]
- He needed some strong excitement, and wished to go himself in search of news. [10]
- Doth it not strike you as being passing strange that the land is not filled with couriers and proclamations describing my person and making search for me? [5]
- When the doctor's story was first made public, it was amusing to scan and contemplate the countenances and hear the remarks of those who had been actively in search for the dead body: some looked quizzical, some melancholy, and some furiously angry. [7]
- Confound it, we stopped talking and did nothing but stand up in the boat and search the horizons with the glass and wonder what in the devil had happened. [5]
- Also he had spent money since in corresponding with lawyers in the West whom he engaged to search for her; but Zoe had never been found. [11]
- I have been so fortunate as to visit this spot and to search through every part of it, and the petitions I speak of have been familiar to me for years. [10]
- Even with the small amount of information obtained by the search among his papers and effects, the gossips of the village had constructed several distinct histories for the mysterious stranger. [6]
- For an hour she looked round and about her in vain; then she perceived that her search must be unsuccessful, and wondered how she might find her way to his parents' house. [10]
- It did not seem possible that this could be, for surely his manners and speech would betray him if he pretended to be the Prince of Wales--then he would be driven out, and search made for the true prince. [5]
- After the useless search, I resumed my journey, fortified with a note of introduction to Dr. Letterman; also with a bale of oakum which I was to carry to that gentleman, this substance being employed as a substitute for lint. [6]
- I know that search will be made for you. [10]
- It was in search of something different from this that King and Forbes took the train and traveled six miles to Asbury Park and Ocean Grove. [4]
- An artist, in search of hints for a painting of the deluge, would here have found them in abundance. [5]
- The sheriff can search me and see. [5]
- And so my search is, like a "Ledger" story, to be continued. [6]
- The priests then search into the records of the time, and find that it returned precisely at the end of five hundred years. [5]
- He hopes to search into the plans and works of the architects of fortifications and makers of maps and, by no means least, he is anxious to become thoroughly familiar with the inventions of mechanicians, which have so long aroused his interest. [10]
- Then, on making search in his wallet, it was discovered that he had entered there under a false name, and that it was Sir Franz von Welemisl who had taken such terrible vengeance on Ursula for her sins against himself and Herdegen. [10]
- Old Age will search him out--and He --He--He--when ready will know where to look. [5]
- She appeared to search her mind to find that which would prejudice him against her. [11]
- Joshua completed his search for the foe and saw on the yellow sands of the valley dark figures moving to and fro. [10]
- Then he would saunter slowly down to the Planters' House bar, which served the purposes of a club in those days, in search of an argument with other prominent citizens. [9]
- You are quite right, and if I were seeking examples of happy marriages, I should not begin my search among the so-called fashionable set of the present day. [9]
- Quilp glanced at Richard Swiveller, and observed that having met him on the threshold, he assumed that he had come in search of some intelligence of the fugitives. [12]
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