How to Use search party in a Sentence

search party

noun
  • Maybe this interview will start a ruckus, and there will be a search party for it.
    Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Day turned to night, and eventually the search party hit pause and went home.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
  • Their abrupt departure causes a wild search party to break out and look for them.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Morin was found dead the next day when a volunteer who joined a search party discovered her along the trail.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
  • She was found dead the next day when a search party volunteer discovered her along the trail.
    Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
  • The mother of five was found dead the next day when a volunteer who joined a search party discovered her along the trail.
    Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Does the eighth-largest city in America need a posse/national search party, to find a fire chief?
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
  • By now the birthday party had turned into a search party.
    Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 22 July 2023
  • Morin’s body was found a day later when a volunteer who joined the search party discovered her along the trail.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
  • After this meeting, the search party came back again to test the young boy with further objects of the previous Dalai Lama.
    Brooke Schedneck, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2023
  • But fear not, the atmosphere — a domed mural of flying blimps and hot air balloons graces the ceiling — is not one of a search party.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The alligator may have evaded the search party by sticking to the woods, Fugate said.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2024
  • Barred from the search party and frustrated by her own idleness, Maddie snaps.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 July 2024
  • There are some potentially scary moments when little sister Gwynn (Kai Cech) gets lost in the snow at night and a search party is sent out to find her.
    Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The department put out a missing person alert, and a search party was organized.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Another search party was organized over the weekend to look for Foote.
    Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The ordeal came to an end on Saturday when members of a local search party came upon the missing man while scouring the forest, per La Vanguardia.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
  • For the past month, the Oregon Senate has started its daily proceedings by dispatching a search party.
    Mike Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • In the mid-afternoon, a search party located an article of clothing that appeared to belong to Schenk.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
  • Connors and his wife organized neighbors into a search party but found nothing.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 2 June 2024
  • According to the police report and witness statements, a search party quickly mobilized among a few of the estate’s tenants.
    Beatrice Hazlehurst, ELLE, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Minutes later, a Metro Fire helicopter and search party were deployed to scan the river looking for the man, who was not wearing a life jacket when he was swept underwater, Wilbourn said.
    Sacramento Bee, 16 June 2024
  • The search party included two helicopters, per the National Park Service.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Subsequent efforts to find living stick insects on Ball’s Pyramid were unsuccessful until 2001, when a search party hiked up the pyramid at night and found two females in a small tea tree.
    Darren Incorvaia, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • The missing hiker arrived at Monadnock State Park Headquarters just as a second search party was heading out to look for him, according to fish and game officials.
    Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 5 July 2024
  • Niemi was finally found Monday afternoon by search party volunteers about two miles from the campsite, police said.
    Sara Smart, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • Her persistence led her to Norris Champion, a FedEx manager who organized a search party.
    David Begnaud, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Local police previously held a search party for Morris, according to their Facebook post, and then took part in another the following day.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
  • After local police called off the search for the night on Friday amid frigid temperatures, a search party reconvened Saturday morning to continue looking for Morris.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2023

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