searched out

Example Sentences

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When The Daily Graphic, a newspaper owned by The Daily Mirror in London, set up operations in Ghana in 1950, it searched out local photojournalists.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2023

And so last month at the NFL’s fall owners meeting, Irsay searched out the closest cameras and tape recorders and constructed a bully pulpit so he could have a proper launchpad to dunk on Snyder.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2022

“When the planes finally got back, I searched out Nathan and there was an older pilot with him,” she said.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2021

For nearly two years, she’s searched out buildings to photograph — mansions and housing projects, churches and banks designed by the African American architecture genius whose work is growing in importance.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2018

He watched John’s fingers as they searched out the tune, how they danced on the strings to make the differing chords.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli