Obtain through effort or management

Usage examples of finding.

The author subjected the contents of the stomach of one patient to quite an extensive analysis, without finding any abnormality of secretion.

Often trauma victims are too concerned with finding their family, surviving, grieving deaths, getting away from their abuser, etc.

In finding the abutment reactions some principle such as the principle of least action must be used, and some assumptions of doubtful validity made.

I, an abysmally incompetent layman, with the terrific task before me of finding out how it got there.

Matters were in this situation, when Tom, one afternoon, finding Sophia alone, began, after a short apology, with a very serious face, to acquaint her that he had a favour to ask of her which he hoped her goodness would comply with.

I examined the actress on the stage, and finding that she was not without beauty I expressed a wish to know her.

Clerval, the actor, had been gathering together a company of actors at Paris, and making her acquaintance by chance and finding her to be intelligent, he assured her that she was a born actress, though she had never suspected it.

The fierce Adelantado, finding himself surrounded by six assailants, who seemed to be directing their whole effort against his life, swung his sword in a berserk rage and slashed about him, to such good purpose that four or five of his assailants soon lay round him killed or wounded.

It was shown in the last chapter that the stolons or runners of certain plants circumnutate largely, and that this movement apparently aids them in finding a passage between the crowded stems of adjoining plants.

For a moment he considered finding the admin complex and seeing if they would tell him where Patterson would be living.

Finding himself grievously wounded, and the blood flowing apace, he, with such presence of mind as cannot be sufficiently admired, instead of proceeding to the palace, which was at some distance, ordered the coachman to return to Junqueria, where his principal surgeon resided, and there his wounds were immediately dressed.

Usually it was the adoptees who came to her for help in finding their birth parents.

Taking hold gently of one of her hands, I told her that she had ignited in my soul a devouring flame, that I adored her, and that, unless some hope was left to me of finding her sensible to my sufferings, I was determined to fly away from her for ever.

There I had the pleasure of finding our friends assembled, and among them Josephine, still as affable and amiable as ever.

Nick picked up the agenda for 1979 and skimmed through the pages, finding the first referral to Goldluxe on March 13, 1979.