verb

definition

To look in (a place) for something.

example

I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.

definition

(followed by "for") To look thoroughly.

example

The police are searching for evidence in his flat.

definition

To look for, seek.

definition

To probe or examine (a wound).

definition

To examine; to try; to put to the test.

noun

definition

Search; hunt

adjective

definition

(of an investigation, etc.) Thorough.

definition

Looking over closely; penetrating; severe.

example

a searching gaze; searching criticism

Examples of searching in a Sentence

He was searching for something.

She nodded, searching the room again for Alex.

She closed her eyes, searching for the home videos.

Finally he sucked a couple times and then began searching again.

Fred grabbed for the map and began searching.

He paused, as if searching for a tasteful word.

Peter had already determined to institute a most searching inquisition in order to get at the bottom of the mystery of the flight.

Searching the Internet is probably your best option.

Was he searching for answers?

She moved away from Darkyn to stand in front of Gabriel, searching his gaze.

He discerned their capabilities, studied their characters, and sought to remedy their defects by frank and searching criticism.

Some twelve years afterwards the East India Company fitted out an expedition under the leadership of Commander William de Vlamingh, with the object of searching for any traces of the lost vessel on the western shores of New Holland.

More mobile and more searching than ice or rock rubbish, the trickling drops are guided by the deepest lines of the hillside in their incipient flow, and as these lines converge, the stream, gaining strength, proceeds in River its torrential course to carve its channel deeper and en- t trench itself in permanent occupation.

This interval was diligently devoted to the pursuit of classical and historical studies, to preparing himself for ordination, and to searching investigations, under the stimulus of continual discussion with a band of talented and congenial associates, of the profoundest questions in theology, ecclesiastical polity and social philosophy.

For instance, searching for "Chinese" in the grocery and gourmet foods categories at Amazon.com brings up more than 1000 results, with everything from La Choy noodles to jasmine tea.

Keep things like string, paper clips and other tiny objects tucked away in drawers safe from searching paws.

If you're looking for bargains, try searching for after-Christmas clearance sales.

It will scan the surface, first making sure you cat has left the box, then searching for litter clumps to dispose.

A bit of searching at your local pet supply or online will show you even more inexpensive bedding for your favorite felines.

The list below is a good place to start, but searching locally for a Siamese to adopt is a good idea as well.

Between Betsy's internet searching and Quinn's calculations the location we sought was found.

It was a Boston and I searched through it, searching to see if Ethel Reagan was still tracking the Psychic Tipster.

An article on young girl reported missing from her Worcester home brought back memories of Betsy searching for more details on similar disappearances.

She peered behind them, as if searching to see if he'd been followed.

The Deans knew they couldn't simply keep Martha without reporting her arrival to the Midwest authorities that were searching for the girl as a kidnapping victim, and her mother as a fleeing fugitive.

Within an hour, they were riding side-by-side down the south bank of the creek, searching for the blocked area.

She added, searching his face.

No doubt, Mr. O'Hara would be as successful searching for his daughter.

Searching for a shadow behind every face wasn't exactly conducive to enjoying her vacation.

She frantically threw her purse open, searching for a tissue, but a violent sneeze ripped through her lungs so quickly she barely had time to cover her mouth with her hand.

She moved away from him, searching in her purse for the door key.

His dinner was searching the crowd for someone.

At St Petersburg a women's medical academy, the examinations of which were even more searching than those of the ordinary academy (especially as regards diseases of women and children), was opened, but after about one hundred women had received the degree of M.D.

Its whereabouts is thus, to a great extent, concealed both from enemies searching for spiders and from insects suitable for food; and its open meshwork of strong threads makes it much less liable to be beaten down by rain or torn to shreds by winds than if it were a flat sheet of closely woven silk.

From that date, until after the colonization of New Providence by the British, there is no record of a Spanish visit to the Bahamas, with the exception of the extraordinary cruise of Juan Ponce de Leon, the conqueror of Porto Rico, who passed months searching the islands for Bimini, which was reported to contain the miraculous "Fountain of Youth."

The diplomacy of Europe had been searching in vain since the autumn Accession of 1875 for the means of inducing Turkey to institute of Abd-u1- effective administrative reforms and to grant to Hamid 11., its European provinces that autonomy which now 1876.

Meanwhile the mathematical mind, with its craving for accurate data on which to found its plans (the most difficult of all to obtain under the conditions of warfare), had been searching for expedients which might serve him to better purpose, and in 1805 he had recourse to the cavalry screen in the hope of such results.

The discordance of their results incited Laplace to a searching examination of the whole subject of planetary perturbations, and his maiden effort was rewarded with a discovery which constituted, when developed and completely demonstrated by his own further labours and those of his illustrious rival Lagrange, the most important advance made in physical astronomy since the time of Newton.

He abrogated caste distinctions, and taught in opposition to ancient writings that every man had the eternal right of searching for divine knowledge and worshipping his Creator.

It was a searching analysis of the financial and moral grounds on which the impost rested, and a historical justification and eulogy of it.

The earlier biographies of Garrick are by Arthur Murphy (2 vols., 1801) and by the bookseller Tom Davies (2 vols., 4th ed., 1805), the latter a work of some merit, but occasionally inaccurate and confused as to dates; and a searching if not altogether sympathetic survey of his verses is furnished by Joseph Knight's valuable Life (1894).

His attention having been drawn to the blighting of the young shoots of fruit-trees, which was commonly attributed to the ants found upon them, he was the first to find the Aphides that really do the mischief; and, upon searching into the history of their generation, he observed the young within the bodies of their parents.

In 1911 he became Democratic leader in the Assembly and was appointed vice-chairman of the Factory Investigating Committee which made a searching inquiry into industrial conditions in the state, resulting in remedial legislation.

Zwingli, moreover, never knew anything of those spiritual experiences which drove Luther into a cloister and goaded him to a feverish "searching of the Scriptures" in the hope of finding spiritual peace.

On the ground this bird runs nimbly, and is nearly always engaged in searching for its food, which is wholly animal.

This is shown by the searching discussions to which the Adoptionist controversy gave rise.

Tristan is here the son of Meliadus, king of Loonois; his father does not die, but is decoyed away by an enchantress, and the mother, searching for her husband, gives birth to her child in the forest and dies.

In1792-1793Joseph Antoine d'Entrecasteaux, searching for traces of La Perouse, ranged the islands west of Tonga.

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.

Searching using a search engine is one way.

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