Hunting (for)

Usage examples of searching.

Tongue, looking for a way around the anticline, and then gone off wandering up cliffs and in and out of side canyons, searching for the best vantage point to show it to us from.

Sidereal light illuminated the diaphanous membranes, devoid of color, the delicate antennae, the feminine waist and long, improbably spindly legs and arms that shone as if covered with tiny scales, the face with its bulging, faceted eyes, and the attenuated tongue, still searching.

While Yama worked, the fisherman, whose name was Caphis, told him that he had blundered into the sticky web just after dawn, while searching for the eggs of a species of coot which nested in the hearts of banyan thickets.

The Colonel was staring straight at Mister Gosling in a queer, searching kind of way that filled Barnacle with uneasiness.

The general was vainly searching for two batteries of artillery he had thought were shortly to arrive.

Mr Bedo was searching the cabin lest his wife should lie concealed in berth or locker.

He was searching to discover the benzine molecule and had no luck until one night he dreamed of a snake biting its own tail.

But, searching the billowy expanse of the Sogar-Jad, he, saw no sign of the swarthy and beturbaned mariners who had carried off the Stone Age girl, nor any sign of their astoundingly antique vessel.

I tried not to think of it myself, but could not help now and then searching his bluntly amiable features for any trace that might reveal his true paternity.

Both Boron and Kyot were hoping to find the kingdom of the Priest in order to take possession of the Grasal, which would have given them God knows what glory and power in those Northern lands where all were still searching for it.

I got another part of the picture, a picture of Mona Brassard throwing dice in a posh club in Tahoe and laughing her head off about the poor clod searching all over Vegas for her.

I stood stone-still and watched as Breger kept searching the suitcase and then, disappointed, started in on the car, the glove compartment, the back seat, the trunk.

While Brewster continued searching his pockets for the lighter, Mick held the twig out, mumbled a fire spell, and the twig burst into flame.

Look at Bridie, she never went out nowadays unless it was searching for a job.

Each time he identified the pattern he was searching for, he pulled the buy order a yellow piece of paper on which was the name of the company in whose shares Sagamore was investing, the number of shares purchased, the date purchased, the brokerage house with which the trade was executed, and the portfolio man ager who had ordered the trade and walked down the hall to the office equipment station and made a photo copy.