How to Use strip search in a Sentence

strip search

noun

• The administrators ordered random strip searches of all prisoners.
• During one strip search, an inmate saw deputies trying to kill a bird with pepper spray.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2019
• That resulted in a strip search and X-ray search of a group of inmates, many of whom were interviewed by the monitors.
  — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
• The middle sister was released after about 45 minutes, and was not strip searched.
  — Sandra Dibble, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• There were not enough male guards to perform strip searches when high-risk prisoners needed to be moved.
  — Joseph Neff and Alysia Santo, USA TODAY, 25 June 2019
• Each said that their time at the wilderness camp began with a strip search, in some cases with no underwear, by a staff member.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
• No drugs were found on him during a strip search that Mr. Cordero said involved him taking off his underwear.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
• In this case, the driver contends that he was subjected to a strip search and visual body cavity search.
  — Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Principal Lisa Stamps and a counselor decided to strip search the student and did not find anything.
  — Ruth Serven Smith | [e-mail], al, 7 Feb. 2022
• Corley was initially ordered to take off her pants for a strip search, but the deputies later tried to cavity search her.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2018
• Current state law defines a strip search as a search in which a person’s genitals or private areas are exposed to view or touched by the searcher.
  — Danielle Duclos, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• Overall, almost 4,000 girls and women of all ages were strip searched over that period, with the most common reason being to search for drugs.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 7 Nov. 2019
• Hardiman also was involved in a decision that upheld the rights of prisons to strip search inmates.
  — Katherine Nails, Philly.com, 9 July 2018
• The hospitals have reduced the use of strip searches and physical restraints, Biviano said.
  — Martha Bellisle, The Seattle Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• In the case of the Mexican 17-year-old, the lawsuit said a staff member who suspected him of possessing contraband threw him to the ground and forcibly tore off his clothes for an impromptu strip search.
  — CBS News, 21 June 2018
• The strip searches were conducted in groups of 20 to 60 people, sometimes more, according to court documents.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2019
• Patients aren’t regularly strip searched, the ruling says.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2019
• Kavanagh said now that Ball’s policy clarification is in place there are no low-custody detainees in the center to strip search.
  — Ana Faguy, baltimoresun.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• After the strip search, Golunov was allowed to get dressed again, and the investigators began searching his backpack.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 10 June 2019
• That meant strip search and cavity search, all his clothes taken, no toiletries allowed until commissary day a week later.
  — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 4 June 2022
• Then, the inmate, Warren and two other officers headed to a room where strip searches are conducted, and the inmate faced the door as part of protocol, according to the plea agreement.
  — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
• Per department policy, an officer can only do a strip search with a warrant or the person's consent.
  — Uriel J. Garcia, azcentral, 18 Dec. 2019
• An Oklahoma woman who says her daughter's school principal pushed the middle school student to reveal her bra during a strip search is suing the school district.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023
• Four officers in the strip search case were criminally convicted.
  — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2017
• Either way, the morning inspection definitely does not include a strip search.
  — Keri Blakinger, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2022
• The lawsuit names 12 counts, including false arrest, unlawful strip search, assault, battery and other charges.
  — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2024
• During his arrest, an officer reportedly saw the 30-year-old shove something down his pants and got approval from a supervisor to conduct a strip search on him.
  — Sarah Horner, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2019
• Officers allegedly forced Brown, 51, to expose herself in a strip search and examined her body cavities with a flashlight.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• Once taken there, the youths were cut off from the outside world, forced to adhere to strange guidelines and in some instances, allegedly, physically abused, beginning with the strip search to which they were subjected on arrival.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
• Before entering the dog cage, Walker was required to undergo a strip search—including a body cavity search.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024