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Example sentences for "thorough search"

  • Leaving one man on guard at the front door, another at the rear, while a third was stationed in the middle room, the rest made a thorough search of the upper part of the house.

  • But the caps were gone and a thorough search of the room, and the entire house as well, failed to disclose them.

  • Do, I beseech you, make a thorough search of the ruins and see if you can find anything that will help to substantiate your story and prove that your experience was of a nature very different from that of an ordinary dream.

  • At the time, however, I did think that possibly the scream was that of a woman being murdered, and did not rest until my husband, with other inmates of our house, had made a thorough search of the garden and premises.

  • I therefore planned a thorough search of the old records in Europe to see what could be learned.

  • When it came to the examination, the officer threw the top till contemptuously aside, and devoted himself to a thorough search of the bottom.

  • The detectives say they have made a thorough search of my servants' quarters, have watched their movements ever since the night of the theft, and they can find none of them of whom they are even suspicious.

  • We don't want to create any excitement, or to let Mrs. Erwin or the servants know until we have made a thorough search.

  • Evidently the burglar meant to make a thorough search of the room before he went to the bed, where, he guessed, the valuables were probably kept; but he must know first.

  • After a thorough search of every inch of Mrs. Erwin's house and grounds, there was still no sign of the jewels; but Governor Post and Mrs. Erwin had made every effort to have the scandal of the necklace hushed up.

  • The police authorities were satisfied that Cooney was the man they wanted, but a thorough search of the city resulted in the discovery that he had left for parts unknown.

  • On the following day, acting under instructions of the Chief of Police, a dozen picked men from the Central detail commenced a thorough search of the Lake View sewers.

  • You have caused a thorough search of Mrs. McClure's records to be made and you have not found any night letter to Washington, D.

  • And a thorough search of the files along the lines that you have previously indicated was unable to produce any other telegrams even remotely falling into the category described by Mr. Hamblen; i.

  • But there was a sufficient relationship so that you are satisfied that the search was made, and it was a thorough search?

  • Aunt Julia," he said aloud, severely, "we must now go through the house from top to bottom and make a thorough search.

  • Marriott, finding self-control a little difficult in his weary condition, at once set about a thorough search of the room.

  • In this I succeeded so far that I decided upon a thorough search of the barn, inside and outside.

  • A thorough search of the floor led me to select as my own sleeping quarters a little room with a diminutive balcony over the verandah roof.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thorough search" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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