Below you will find example sentences with "started searching". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Started Searching in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: searching
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 4
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 23.2 words

Words in this phrase

started searching

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • started can mean: simple past and past participle of start Common word
  • searching can mean: present participle and gerund of search Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 7 start, 5 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

account and started searching for other 1× and he started searching for them 1× appeared and started searching people including 1× authorities only started searching for her 1× bed they started searching for him 1× before you started searching 1× charnley has started searching for a 1× crews started searching around 1 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

after the parents 1× an underwater robot 1× crews started searching 1× don t get 1× forensics officers and 1× harmony montgomery has 1×

Common sentence endings:

searching for him 2× a week tomorrow 1× crohn s disease 1× district in boston 1× feeling this way 1× for the boy 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

police 6× area 3× two 3× people 3× get 2× case 2× coast 2× seen 2× missing 2× online 2× someone 2× friends 2×

Related phrases

started dating started getting started playing started throwing officers searching

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around searching:

officers searching 4×

Just before it in the phrase index:

started playing started getting started dating start talking start collecting starring role

Just after it in the phrase index:

started throwing starting lineup starting quarterback stated earlier statement submitted statements regarding

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

started dating started getting started playing started throwing

Same ending:

officers searching

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "started searching" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 23.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as account and started searching for other, and he started searching for them, police, area and two stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with started dating, started getting, started playing and officers searching, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with started searching

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

This angered Han, who then started searching for the boy. (10 words)

Her friends started searching for her immediately after realising she was missing. (12 words)

However, when the duo did not return till late, their relatives started searching for him. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

An underwater robot had also started searching in the vicinity of the Titanic, and there was a push to get salvage equipment to the scene in case the submersible is found, said Jamie Frederick of the First Coast Guard District in Boston. (42 words)

Yesterday, two boats with specialist police teams started searching the coast off Morecambe Bay, about 20 miles from where Nicola was last seen, with police suggesting finding her in the open sea had become ‘more of a possibility’. (38 words)

Then when she tried to move forward, agents blasted the Fords' horns and three people she described as 'tall, bald-headed dudes with big badges on their chest' started searching her car. (32 words)

Example sentences (20)

Police started started searching the garden on Monday, but prosecutors only said that the activities on the site were connected to their investigation.

An underwater robot had also started searching in the vicinity of the Titanic, and there was a push to get salvage equipment to the scene in case the submersible is found, said Jamie Frederick of the First Coast Guard District in Boston.

Forensics officers and a police dog unit started searching a grassed area, with police confirming they found evidence of shots being fired.

Harmony Montgomery has not been seen since around October 2019 but authorities only started searching for her in December 2021.

However, when the duo did not return till late, their relatives started searching for him.

When the deputies discovered an empty gun case and three boxes of buckshot with two rounds missing, he and fellow worker Samantha McElroy started searching the area.

Yesterday, two boats with specialist police teams started searching the coast off Morecambe Bay, about 20 miles from where Nicola was last seen, with police suggesting finding her in the open sea had become ‘more of a possibility’.

I live in Roxbury and I was walking home and they just rolled up on me and threw me against the wall and started searching me.

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I started searching online 'how to feel like yourself after having a baby' and came across someone promoting a three-day online 'confidence course'.

She created an IBD-focused Instagram account and started searching for other people sharing about Crohn’s disease.

Then when she tried to move forward, agents blasted the Fords' horns and three people she described as 'tall, bald-headed dudes with big badges on their chest' started searching her car.

This angered Han, who then started searching for the boy.

After the parents did not find Kishor in his bed, they started searching for him.

Crews started searching around 1 p.m. Saturday for the father and his two children in the area of Falcon Cove.

One of them had on his post-retirement bucket list a wish to reunite with his childhood friends and schoolmates from Sarawak and he started searching for them on social media.

So I did what 11-year-old Renee would do and started searching for any reason I could be feeling this way.

Her friends started searching for her immediately after realising she was missing.

Toon managing director Lee Charnley has started searching for a new boss and would ideally like someone in before pre-season starts a week tomorrow.

Don’t get caught up in features you didn’t know you wanted before you started searching.

One customer said: “I just nipped in for a drink after work and, suddenly, the police appeared and started searching people including me.

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