searching
adjective
examining carefully or thoroughly.
searchingly
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a word derived from
searching.
Example Sentences
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Even as Ms. Back writes searchingly and evocatively about her suffering, she finds that narrative prose cannot depict the “black pit of depression, a landscape marked by lacunae.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
One song, “Grandmother,” features Laraaji singing wildly and searchingly over the top of Lenker’s vocals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
Stanley and M looked searchingly at each other.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023
Sprouting from the dark soil is an animatronic daisy, which moves searchingly to music that begins as a dirge and swells to something anticipatory.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
She pictured his thin, serious face, and his eyes looking out searchingly from beneath his dark eyebrows.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
