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Example sentences for "searchers"

Lexicographically close words:
searce; search; searche; searched; searcher; searches; searcheth; searching; searchingly; searchings
  1. The hoard was thus hidden so securely that there was little chance that it would be found unless the searchers had positive information of its being on board.

  2. After a brisk walk of half an hour the searchers were at the most northerly end of the key, and directly before them, not more than half a mile from the beach, in a westerly direction, was the wreck.

  3. In rapid succession the searchers went from one room to another, stopping at each only long enough to make sure no person was concealed therein, and to take a general but hasty survey of its contents.

  4. The ray of hope the young searchers held out to one another on their homeward way, that they might find MacLester safe and sound in camp upon their own arrival there, was quickly turned to disappointment.

  5. But nothing resulted except a trio of tired searchers with deep mud on their legs and a sense that Murky had eluded them again.

  6. The searchers stood for a moment considering what was best to do.

  7. Until this noise or call is made, the searchers may not seek him.

  8. Peter, were diligent searchers to inquire out this saluation by Christe, searching when and at what article of time this grace of Christes dispensation shoulde appeare to the world.

  9. Their dispiritingly aimless hunt changing into a scrambling rush in the direction whence came the faint-heard barks, the searchers trooped toward the ledge.

  10. By stoning Lad away and checking the barks, Cyril might well prevent the searchers from finding him.

  11. Could it be that searchers from his native land had at last found him?

  12. The east coast earldom was known, of course, but somehow, searchers had failed to discover that the Earl held any equipment.

  13. This discovery aroused the enthusiasm of the searchers to fever height.

  14. When the searchers next assembled they met at the great table in the library at Gleninch.

  15. Every room was thickly strewn with leaves torn from valuable books, with fragments of apparel, and other articles, which the searchers not being able to carry off had wantonly destroyed.

  16. The searchers next proceeded to the cellar, and bored the floors with a broach to a considerable depth, to try whether there were any vaults beneath them, but they made no discovery.

  17. Then are these searchers oft-times so rude and barbarous, that, if the doors be not opened in the instant they would enter, they break open the doors with all violence, as if they were to sack a town of enemies won by the sword.

  18. Have the rascally searchers been here again?

  19. Encouraged by this discovery, the searchers continued their operations to a late hour, when they desisted for the night.

  20. The prisoners meanwhile suffered grievously from their confinement, and hearing the searchers knocking against the walls, and even within the chimney, felt certain they should be discovered.

  21. It was a hardy feat; and the searchers were rewarded by the discovery of two chambers hewn by hand in the solid rock.

  22. They may not discover you are a woman and possibly may think we are searchers like themselves.

  23. There was scarcely a chance they could cross it unobserved, but they might be so far ahead of the searchers that they could beat them out to the kloof.

  24. He led the way rapidly then, back to the valley, where some of the searchers had already returned, and he found them grouped around the exit, when they issued from the cave.

  25. The searchers had left the hull and were pursuing him through open space.

  26. The searchers were growing points of light in the far distance.

  27. He looked toward the Martian Princess and the searchers on the hull.

  28. Instantly, the searchers moved to close in the arc and meet him on a collision course.

  29. The searchers found not a man of the colony; their houses were taken down, and a strong palisade had been built.

  30. Stith says that Raleigh sent five several times to search for the lost, but the searchers returned with only idle reports and frivolous allegations.

  31. Generations of searchers after immortality have chiseled their names in the rock platform, and one who sits there now falls to musing on the vanity of human nature and the transitoriness of fashion.

  32. Night had fallen when the searchers arrived back at Fearing Island.

  33. He phoned Admiral Walter, whose report was bleak--the searchers had still gleaned no trace of the buried missile.

  34. London searchers shall inspect leather, seal and mark that which is sufficient, and seize any that is insufficiently tanned, curried, wrought, or used.

  35. The other searchers spread their rays; the rocks all about me were lighted.

  36. The searchers were headed directly for me.

  37. I cannot run such a gauntlet of eager searchers without detection.

  38. Meanwhile, the light of fox-fire and fire-fly lanterns was glancing everywhere through camp and field, showing where eager searchers were scattered looking for the lost Nurses.

  39. The lights of the searchers were seen dancing throughout the entire plain, and running hither and thither in confused lines among grass and shrubbery.

  40. All signs of the trail had ceased as soon as the searchers had come out of the grass and brushwood.

  41. A shout from the searchers interrupted him.

  42. By a similar process diamonds acquired the same reputation in India when searchers after gold discovered the precious metal in Hyderabad, and the diamonds of Golconda came to be accredited with life-giving powers.

  43. Yet these mighty forces were let loose upon the world as the result of the circumstance that early searchers for an elixir of life used the valueless metal to make imitations of their shell amulets!

  44. The Oath for the Searchers of the Plague, 1665.

  45. In the seventeenth-century plagues of London and provincial towns, the white wand was retained as the peculiar badge of the searchers of infected houses and of the bearers of the dead.

  46. On November 30, the plague was spreading, if the searchers (drunken women, however) were to be credited.

  47. The searchers are mentioned at Shrewsbury as early as 1539 (Phillips).

  48. The searchers set out at once, and went first to Governor Winthrop at Hartford.

  49. The officers made their search, while Michael, hunting fowls along the river, kept watch, ready to warn his master to draw back into his cave, in case the searchers should hunt along the bank.

  50. It was an excellent place of concealment, as searchers might have passed within a foot of the bushes without suspecting that aught lay concealed within them.

  51. The eager searchers from farther away had come to the place.

  52. The searchers had known it could be of no avail, for the puny foot of man could have made no track upon the slanted floor of granite fragments that constituted the hill-side.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "searchers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.