Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A party engaged in searching for something lost, concealed, or the like.
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Examples
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In his aching mind, Crozier saw at least one other Naval expedition setting sail for Baffin Bay in search of the lost Franklins this coming summer and most probably even a third Naval squadron sent all the way around Cape Horn to rendezvous, theoretically, with the other search-party ships near the Bering Strait, searching for them in the western arctic, to which Erebus and Terror had never come within a thousand miles.
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His search-party, too, had looked awkward there, having rushed to the task of investigation — some in their shirt sleeves, others in their leather aprons, and all much stained — just as they had come from their work of barking, and not in their Sherton marketing attire; while Creedle, with his ropes and grapnels and air of impending tragedy, had added melancholy to gawkiness.
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That will give us the excuse to send a search-party back in that area to look for her, once you're sure she's gone quite mad!
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This discovery gave me abundant trouble; the second search-party was a failure; and it was not till February 18th that
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The search-party then retraced its steps, minds still benumbed with the horror of their discovery and the knowledge that the party had died just eleven miles from One Ton Depot.
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And so it was that towards the end of October the search-party set out.
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They even joined in a manhunt for an escaped rapist-who turned himself in, practically soiling himself with fear, when he learned that Rommel was part of the search-party.
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And yet none of the search-party gear had been affected-yet.
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And yet none of the search-party gear had been affected-yet.
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Tremane waited for the rest of the search-party to catch up and gather around.
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