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Example sentences for "searching"

Lexicographically close words:
searched; searcher; searchers; searches; searcheth; searchingly; searchings; searchlight; searchlights; searcht
  1. But his eyes passed with a sombre, searching gaze from one servant to the other, and whomever he caught smiling or nudging his neighbor in secret malice he dismissed next morning.

  2. One evening, when he was searching in the dark for one of his books to take there with him, he put his hand upon something long and round, carefully wrapped up in tissue-paper in the farthest corner of a drawer.

  3. Any one who saw him appear in that merry crowd with his sombre brow and his scared, searching look, asked himself indeed, "What does he want here?

  4. In turning towards Elsbeth he saw that she was gazing at him with a strangely earnest, searching look.

  5. I don't want to hear any more of that nonsense, nor to have you, Dorothy, go searching for the place.

  6. This salutation was so sudden and unexpected that Dorothy Chester jumped, and rising from the grass, where she had been searching for wild strawberries, beheld a row of pink sunbonnets behind the great stone wall.

  7. He was not mistaken, for some cruisers were steaming slowly along the coast as if searching for an opening.

  8. Treachery was suspected at once, and a searching investigation insisted on.

  9. An examination of the thermometer showed that Hal's temperature was high, and a searching inspection of the wound revealed that it was inflamed.

  10. It moved from the harbor mouth, searching every corner and crevice of the rocks as it swept inland again.

  11. Hal had just time to notice that the other scoundrel was busily searching for the bag beneath the bunk, when both men turned and rushed at him, Pedro pressing the trigger of his revolver.

  12. Then rifle volleys were directed at them, searching every corner.

  13. Fowler searching for some rare shells on the beach, to whom she recounted her adventure with the strange gentleman with the white hair, but she did not mention the other in whom she was more interested.

  14. Yet on they went, searching still, and searching everywhere.

  15. After searching still further, Mr. Morley found the bag in which his money had been placed, but the money was all gone and the papers also.

  16. In searching one of the drawers in what appeared to have been the bedroom of a female, Josiah found a gold earring, of a peculiar pattern, with a small diamond in the drop end of it.

  17. We will use this money, as it is ordered, in searching for the guilty parties.

  18. On they went in double file, slowly and cautiously, searching every nook and corner, looking behind old casks, and turning up old canvass bags that lay about in corners; but no trace of their missing friend could be found.

  19. He worked almost without ceasing, nursing Mrs. Judson, searching for provisions, and feeding the prisoners.

  20. He was searching his vocabulary for a word which would gently crack the silence without shattering it to bits.

  21. Mr. Tucker edged forward with a suspicious eye turned upon Mr. Opp, who was nervously searching about for his hat.

  22. At the Gusty gate he encountered Val, who was on all fours by the fence, searching for something.

  23. A second purpose of the Sunday-school is upbuilding in Christ, and this is possible only through searching study of the Word of God.

  24. This fact is historical, “Canst thou by searching find out God?

  25. I do not remember ever to have known such an exquisite and eager pleasure as in this impulsive searching of our minds.

  26. Once, when we were discussing this, Anne said to me a very searching thing.

  27. Look at her stooping down to gather up her treasure, searching for the hair and replacing it, and then mournfully examining the crack that disfigures the once-loved image.

  28. By day he had been riding or wandering incessantly, either searching for Caterina himself, or directing inquiries to be made by others.

  29. Our agricultural explorers are searching the world for new varieties which can be used in hybridizing to perfect the American species.

  30. Why are representatives of our Agricultural Department searching the world for new species of plants?

  31. When a courtier presumed to ask him what he was looking at, he said, 'I am searching for those costly walls of Panama.

  32. He discovered the secret I had wasted away in searching for, and you rewarded him.

  33. Then, under the pretext of searching the houses for arms, they pillaged the belongings of the villagers.

  34. This is a long business, searching for gold," I went muttering.

  35. Dick, who had moved back into the shadow from a lamp on the table, was staring with that same searching gaze he had bestowed on her when she had lingered beside the window.

  36. She drew her chair close to Larry, but the small man turned shyly from her searching gaze.

  37. So far as he had ever pictured life to himself he had seen it as an extension of his ordered English countryside, beset by no hazard more searching than a hawthorne hedge.

  38. After staggering into Smolensk which seemed to them a promised land, the French, searching for food, killed one another, sacked their own stores, and when everything had been plundered fled farther.

  39. He does not look like a common man," said the interpreter, after a searching look at Pierre.

  40. As soon as she entered, Pierre's features, which had been gloomy, suddenly lighted up, and while still searching for the papers he glanced at her several times.

  41. Nicholas Rostov turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed into the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the sun.

  42. The old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son's words and began bustlingly searching for something.

  43. Natasha sat erect, gazing with a searching look now at her father and now at Pierre.

  44. As no transports could arrive, the men dispersed about the abandoned and deserted villages, searching for potatoes, but found few even of these.

  45. Old Karay had turned his head and was angrily searching for fleas, baring his yellow teeth and snapping at his hind legs.

  46. He only remembered beating someone and being beaten and finally feeling that his hands were bound and that a crowd of French soldiers stood around him and were searching him.

  47. Uncle," Rostov, and Ilagin kept stealthily glancing at one another's dogs, trying not to be observed by their companions and searching uneasily for rivals to their own borzois.

  48. But the real stability of Bohemia, and the substantial unity which under-lay its divisions, were to be proved very soon, by a most searching test.

  49. When Comenius produced his schemes, the Chancellor subjected them to a searching criticism; and, finding that Comenius was ready to meet his objections, he consented to place the reform of Swedish education under his guidance.

  50. Why, I was going to say we've managed to carry out a lot of things before now that looked as hopeless as searching for a needle in a haystack.

  51. Men bearing the sacred Red Cross, from both the French and the German sides, were moving about, searching for those in whom life still remained.

  52. Josh grinned as though greatly tickled over their good luck; and Hanky on his part doubtless felt like offering thanks because the searching party had turned out to be friends instead of foes.

  53. Josh doubtless was figuring in his mind just how they might get the precious motorcycles out of the potato cellar unobserved, and ride wildly away before the searching Germans suspected their presence.

  54. After searching through all antiquity after truth, I congratulate myself upon having at last discovered it, and where I least expected, in a Jew.

  55. My agents are in every corner of the empire, of the east and west, searching out the curious and the rare, the useful and the necessary, to swell the catalogue of my intellectual riches.

  56. I will buy the basketful and that will save me no end of trouble searching for things in the village.

  57. She turned her dark beautiful eyes on him with a gaze that was almost disconcerting while searching her mind for an answer.

  58. Cases difficult to decide he transferred from the people to the searching justice of the courts, but preserved to the popular body the dignity of the elections and trained citizens in these to seek a means of honor, not of strife.

  59. Then might one have obtained a clear and searching insight into the weakness of man, so that self-conceit would have been never again, under any conditions possible.

  60. Plautius accordingly had considerable trouble in searching for them.

  61. And now the flashlight again, searching the mechanism of the inner door--then darkness once more.

  62. A man loitering at the curb shot a swift, searching glance at him as he slouched by.

  63. The sudden transition from the darkness for a moment dazzled Jimmie Dale's eyes--but the next moment he was searching the faces of the three men.

  64. The little motor boat would have grounded long before they overtook her, and, thinking naturally enough, that he had leaped ashore from her, they would go thrashing through the woods and fields searching for him!

  65. With it ajar, he paused, his eyes searching intently up and down the lane.

  66. We have already taken the liberty of searching you.

  67. I have heard of these soldiers clambering to the roofs and crawling like evil beasts from skylight to skylight, peering down into dark attics and roof-rooms, searching for the shuddering victims who found no way of escape.

  68. These sermons contain suggestive thoughts, many noble and heart-searching utterances.

  69. And then out of the basket would come apples, or pears, or walnuts, with a honeyed phrase, the little vivid eyes searching our own.

  70. He took the man, sent an officer on board the American ship, who took the liberty of opening the after hatch, searching the hold and looking out a chest and clothes.

  71. His saturated clothes were pulling him down, and it was the catch of his sleeve in a protruding stake which had held him for a few minutes, and shown him to his wife's searching eyes.

  72. I have been searching everywhere for you.

  73. Close and searching inquiries have been made, and it is possible that I know more of your affairs than you know yourself--certainly more than you have permitted me to hear from you to-day.

  74. Approbation can be the only sentiment which this well-written and deeply-searching book must elicit.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "searching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    chase; close; curious; dogging; dragnet; exploration; fishing; following; forage; frisk; hard; hunt; hunting; inquisitive; narrow; nosy; penetrating; piercing; piscatory; poking; posse; probe; probing; prosecution; prowl; prying; pursuance; pursuit; quest; quizzical; rummage; search; searching; shadowing; stalk; stalking; tracking; trailing


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    searching glance; searching look