searching out
Example Sentences
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He has started searching out lighter hauls and avoiding hilly routes that guzzle fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
Surrounded by racks of shirts, dresses and jumpers, Lucy tells me that she could spend up to 14 hours a day searching out new clothes as an escape from reality.
From BBC • Jul. 29, 2025
Critics have concluded, absolutely correctly, that this provision serves to elide the manifold horrors of slavery by searching out its good side.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2023
I frequented galleries, museum shows and antique malls searching out and sometimes buying objects of these periods — an oak library table here, a planter stand or lighting fixture there.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2023
It was like delicately searching out the gap between one stitch and the next with the point of a scalpel.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
