How to Use search party in a Sentence

search party

noun
  • Maybe this interview will start a ruckus, and there will be a search party for it.
    — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Their abrupt departure causes a wild search party to break out and look for them.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Day turned to night, and eventually the search party hit pause and went home.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
  • People that lived around the beach got together and launched a search party for my dog.
    — Thalita Teixeira Padilla, People.com, 5 Oct. 2024
  • She was found dead the next day when a search party volunteer discovered her along the trail.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
  • Morin was found dead the next day when a volunteer who joined a search party discovered her along the trail.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Hours later, the girls failed to return home, and a search party was organized to find them.
    — Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The event is to be followed by a community search party.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The next day the locals put together a big search party—and made a lot of attempts to shoot this bear down.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Morin’s body was found a day later when a volunteer who joined the search party discovered her along the trail.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The mother of five was found dead the next day when a volunteer who joined a search party discovered her along the trail.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Barred from the search party and frustrated by her own idleness, Maddie snaps.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 July 2024
  • Does the eighth-largest city in America need a posse/national search party, to find a fire chief?
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The department put out a missing person alert, and a search party was organized.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Connors and his wife organized neighbors into a search party but found nothing.
    — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 2 June 2024
  • Another search party was organized over the weekend to look for Foote.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2024
  • But fear not, the atmosphere — a domed mural of flying blimps and hot air balloons graces the ceiling — is not one of a search party.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The alligator may have evaded the search party by sticking to the woods, Fugate said.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2024
  • After this meeting, the search party came back again to test the young boy with further objects of the previous Dalai Lama.
    — Brooke Schedneck, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The girls had been hidden away, and were only discovered after a member of the search party came upon Decker's truck.
    — Chris Spargo, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Between the departments and agencies, the search party included a range of water crafts, medical standby, drones and a dive unit.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • In the mid-afternoon, a search party located an article of clothing that appeared to belong to Schenk.
    — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
  • With every moment, despite the frenzy of the search party, Baker hangs his camera back, just slightly, to provide stillness.
    — Rachel Sonis, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
  • For the past month, the Oregon Senate has started its daily proceedings by dispatching a search party.
    — Mike Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • According to the police report and witness statements, a search party quickly mobilized among a few of the estate’s tenants.
    — Beatrice Hazlehurst, ELLE, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Over the days that followed, the search party that involved multiple local agencies grew in size and scope as there was no sign of Smith or contact with him and his family.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 6 Feb. 2026
  • There are some potentially scary moments when little sister Gwynn (Kai Cech) gets lost in the snow at night and a search party is sent out to find her.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Niemi was finally found Monday afternoon by search party volunteers about two miles from the campsite, police said.
    — Sara Smart, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • Lupita's been missing ever since, and people in the community who don't know the family have been joining a sunrise-to-sunset search party to help.
    — Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Ilda Alva and her search party kept going, past Camp Mystic to the ranch where Jose Olvera was a groundskeeper.
    — Karen Valby, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026

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