How to Use strip search in a Sentence

strip search

noun
  • The administrators ordered random strip searches of all prisoners.
  • During one strip search, an inmate saw deputies trying to kill a bird with pepper spray.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2019
  • There were not enough male guards to perform strip searches when high-risk prisoners needed to be moved.
    — Joseph Neff and Alysia Santo, USA TODAY, 25 June 2019
  • But the people who own this apartment building practically want to strip search me, just so my kid can live there.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 3 July 2024
  • Each said that their time at the wilderness camp began with a strip search, in some cases with no underwear, by a staff member.
    — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The middle sister was released after about 45 minutes, and was not strip searched.
    — Sandra Dibble, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • In this case, the driver contends that he was subjected to a strip search and visual body cavity search.
    — Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Corley was initially ordered to take off her pants for a strip search, but the deputies later tried to cavity search her.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Hardiman also was involved in a decision that upheld the rights of prisons to strip search inmates.
    — Katherine Nails, Philly.com, 9 July 2018
  • That resulted in a strip search and X-ray search of a group of inmates, many of whom were interviewed by the monitors.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Current state law defines a strip search as a search in which a person’s genitals or private areas are exposed to view or touched by the searcher.
    — Danielle Duclos, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
  • One of their attorneys, Kevin Mehr, acknowledged that strip searches are needed in jails.
    — Colleen Slevin, Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2025
  • That meant strip search and cavity search, all his clothes taken, no toiletries allowed until commissary day a week later.
    — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 4 June 2022
  • Four officers in the strip search case were criminally convicted.
    — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Principal Lisa Stamps and a counselor decided to strip search the student and did not find anything.
    — Ruth Serven Smith | [email protected], al, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Either way, the morning inspection definitely does not include a strip search.
    — Keri Blakinger, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2022
  • Per department policy, an officer can only do a strip search with a warrant or the person's consent.
    — Uriel J. Garcia, azcentral, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The hospitals have reduced the use of strip searches and physical restraints, Biviano said.
    — Martha Bellisle, The Seattle Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Hennessy began a sweeping probe into other claims that deputies beat jail inmates and subjected them to degrading strip searches.
    — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Kavanagh said now that Ball’s policy clarification is in place there are no low-custody detainees in the center to strip search.
    — Ana Faguy, baltimoresun.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • After the strip search, Golunov was allowed to get dressed again, and the investigators began searching his backpack.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 10 June 2019
  • Their lawsuit alleged they had been subjected to strip searches and body cavity searches, and were detained with unrelated adults.
    — Katie Reilly, Time, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The complaints allege detainees taken to the facility were beaten or subjected to strip searches.
    — Kevin Conlon, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Overall, almost 4,000 girls and women of all ages were strip searched over that period, with the most common reason being to search for drugs.
    — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The lawsuit names 12 counts, including false arrest, unlawful strip search, assault, battery and other charges.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2024
  • Before entering the dog cage, Walker was required to undergo a strip search—including a body cavity search.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
  • Department of Corrections policy requires that a parent or legal guardian approve the strip search of minors.
    — Anna Sturla, CNN, 6 Dec. 2019
  • At the behest of the caller, Sandra escalates the situation to a strip search, which quickly descends into a whirlwind of abuse.
    — Yasmeen Hamadeh, People.com, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The new statistics follow months of increasing scrutiny of the growing practice of strip searches by police officers.
    — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019
  • An Oklahoma woman who says her daughter's school principal pushed the middle school student to reveal her bra during a strip search is suing the school district.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023

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