Definition of search party in US English:
search party
nounˈsərCH ˌpärdēˈsərtʃ ˌpɑrdi
A group of people organized to look for someone or something that is lost.
Example sentencesExamples
- So when this happened, she didn't expect to have 200 people show up at the Carriage Club retirement village to be part of a search party.
- A parental search party found us shivering and cowering in the scrub and marched us back to civilisation.
- A heated debate ensues and a search party is dispatched.
- The material put up around the walls will keep you amused long enough for other patrons to consider organising a search party.
- A search party is organised to locate her and she is eventually found and brought home.
- A search party of 200 local people and mountain rescuers continued to hunt for the child into this morning.
- A search party soon set off in the gathering dusk.
- A police search party found them still in the tree 22 hours later.
- She said they dispatched a search party of four canoes.
- Erik's father had organized a search party, and was out still with the group.
- A search party found his body, and that of the doctor, floating in the shallow waters of nearby Lake Starnberg.
- Do lost people have to pay for the expense of their search party?
- While search was in progress terrorists opened fire when they found themselves trapped by the search party.
- If I'm not back tomorrow send out the search party.
- My family wouldn't even have called out a search party yet.
- All teams returned safely and a search party was not required to find the girls team who played a good game of golf.
- A military search party found her body on the trail around midnight.
- We don't yet have all the answers, but 50,000 Europeans have now joined the search party.
- The man, believed to be 35, was found alive but unconscious by a search party early yesterday morning.
- He was with a search party of Currane people on Sept 13 when some human bones and clothes were found.