Example Sentences

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Searched for neighbors and cried out to strangers.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024

The British star, who shot to fame playing telekinetic teen Eleven in Netflix’s sci-fi series “Stranger Things,” revealed during Wired’s “Web’s Most Searched Questions” series that she met Bongiovi through social media, reportedly in 2021.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023

Now this story is known as the Woman Who Searched for Herself.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 9, 2015

The Boston PD's own Twitter account issued a blunt message to the scanner-addicts: "WARNING: Do Not Compromise Officer Safety by Broadcasting Tactical Positions of Homes Being Searched," which was itself retweeted more than 20,000 times.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2013

Meantime the stranger with a lamp, Which lit the darkness, small and wan, Searched where the mules did tramp and stamp, Amid the litter and the damp, For some small place to rest upon.

From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Scott, Duncan Campbell