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

Missing the orchestra that’s close to home for me, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, I also searched out two of their members featured in Radio 3’s Postcards from Composers.

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2020

Instantly I was thinking of the lover she might want, the man whom she’d searched out but hadn’t yet found in her life.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee