How to Use rescue mission in a Sentence

rescue mission

noun

• The crew of the Mayaguez was set free, but not thanks to the rescue mission.
  — Dominic Tierney, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024
• No one thought that the drone flight would lead to a rescue mission.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• By the end of the day, the Coast Guard announced that the rescue mission had ended.
  — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• The 160th was set up after the failure of the U.S. hostage rescue mission in Iran.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Oct. 2019
• The two men were part of the rescue mission that found all 13 people alive about 2.5 miles from the cave mouth.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2022
• But read on for robot wars, the Siri of the ‘90s, and a satellite rescue mission.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 4 Aug. 2018
• Read on for a timeline of the rescue mission since the team became stuck.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 18 July 2018
• There was so much that could have gone wrong in this rescue mission.
  — ABC News, 9 June 2024
• As soon as the rescue mission was complete, the teams were deployed to pump the water away from the farms.
  — George Styllis, latimes.com, 11 July 2018
• The triumph of the hostage rescue mission comes amid pain across Israel and Gaza.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• This search-and-rescue mission is part of a wider effort.
  — National Geographic, 3 Dec. 2019
• The American at the center of the rescue mission was Maj.
  — Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
• It will be used to track suspects or go on search and rescue missions.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
• Carter at one point ordered a rescue mission to try to release the U.S. hostages.
  — Stephen Neukam, The Hill, 29 Dec. 2024
• Weeks passed with no sign of Nylo, and the rescue mission turned into a dive search.
  — The Enquirer, 26 Apr. 2021
• Such was the case with the rescue mission at his son’s Trump’s Castle casino.
  — Susanne Craig, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
• Or the ice could carry them far to the west, beyond the reach of rescue missions should anything go awry.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
• Thus begins the tale of the greatest rescue mission in the history of mankind.
  — Rex Crum, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2019
• That rescue mission was watched around the world as the Thai navy and emergency crews worked to free the group, which was trapped for more than two weeks.
  — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
• The Israeli Homefront Command Team is one of the teams sent to help with the massive search and rescue mission.
  — Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 27 June 2021
• Photo: soe zeya tun/Reuters Air tanks are delivered to the site for divers to use in the rescue mission.
  — Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 11 July 2018
• And this isn’t the first time they’ve been flown to another country for a cave-rescue mission.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2018
• They were brought out of the cave in a daring rescue mission that ended on July 10.
  — Tassanee Vejpongsa, The Seattle Times, 24 July 2018
• The Man in Black thinks they’re all hosts, sent by Ford to stop his progress, and what should be a simple rescue mission turns deadly.
  — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 18 June 2018
• Hours later, Lovelace said, Lovelace rode a bike into town to garden and saw the search and rescue mission.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 6 June 2018
• Members of the National Guard and relief teams from 19 states joined search and rescue missions in the state.
  — David Brennan, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2024
• The search for Rivera has shifted from a rescue mission to a recovery one, with the star presumed dead.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2020
• But for now, Brinkerhoff and her polar ice machine are on a rescue mission of sorts, one that’s taking them to the end of the Earth.
  — Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2021
• They're used in first responses to wildfires and for rescue missions.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
• The braiding works brilliantly, transporting the reader to perilous seas in the golden age of steam, and a daring and dangerous rescue mission.
  — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 3 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Feb 2025