"search" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Maggy's head jerked around and her eyes searched vainly through the night.
- I have passed my days in vainly searching for solid attachments.
- Then she was searching vainly for something else to break, her back to me, the muscles in her arms standing out.
- She spent her final years back in York, vainly searching for her children.
- Her eyes searched vainly for something with which to beat them off, but there was nothing.
- The parents, who had married and had two other children, searched vainly for years.
- I looked at the others, searching vainly for a sympathetic face.
- He was sitting alone one evening pondering deeply over his troubles, and searching vainly for some way out of them.
- She had remained on Azlaroc herself, vainly searching for him.
- We spent the entire week vainly searching for an flat in the old town.
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