"earnest search" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a sincere and determined effort to find or obtain something. Example: After months of earnest search, the team finally found the missing documents that would prove their client's innocence.
He begins an earnest search for a winning system.
This enthusiasm was accompanied by an earnest search for knowledge, and the period saw the birth of botanical science.
With its bubbly pop score and a young title character (played here by Matthew James Thomas) in earnest search of his place in the world, "Pippin" has become a natural favorite of community and school theaters.
But Lord Malloch-Brown's career seems to have followed a curiously logical pattern, each job-change marking a stage in his earnest search for an answer to the world's problems.
Alan, who is on a messy but earnest search for some way to remake his life (he is considering a sudden swerve into good works, or maybe adding a letter to his first name), seems to regret just about every decision he has or has not made.
Some come to our website with sizable debt loads in an earnest search for relief, while others are simply wondering if they could be saving money.
DeForest was at his funniest all night during that earnest searching.
In fact its success (the Times critic Irving Wardle called it "a national classic") embarrassed Friel, and he wrote his only comedy, The Communication Cord (1982), as a sendup to prove that he was capable of cocking a snook at "traditional pieties" and the sometimes over-earnest search for Irish identity.
In the spring, the transportation authority expects to begin in earnest its search for a retail operator who will run the space in the main building and in the Corbin Building under a master lease.
"Who I Am" is an earnest, tortured, searching book — by turns eloquent and long-winded, revealing and oddly elliptical.
"I'm going to write a book one day called 'Home Sweet Rental Home,' about all the ridiculous things we've been through," Anne continued, and added that it would be comic rather than earnest and searching, like her husband's.
