Sentence examples for grim search from inspiring English sources

Mr Bush visited the site, and the grim search for bodies continued.

Their grim search for survivors of Hurricane Ike had finally been called off.

Away from the celebrations, inside the Taj, the grim search for bodies was under way.

Rescuers faced a grim search through mounds of rubble in Vilonia and a spokesman for the County Sheriff's office said there was a "mass casualty situation".

Rescuers combed mountains of rubble at what had been the World Trade Center yesterday in a grim search for survivors among the thousands presumed dead in its collapse.

"We know we need to create jobs," said Chieko Uchihama, an official at the chamber, "but how do you do that when you don't even know who survived?" Another immediate task is the grim search for the remains of the people still classified as missing in Otsuchi.

A man has been murdered; his grieving widow has been on a long and almost unimaginably grim journey in search of justice.

They will have no choice but to move to higher ground, and their options are grim as they search for a home in war-torn Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea.

In the hours after the explosion, shocked officers embarked on the grim task of searching for casualties, at first mistaking shop-window mannequins for bodies.

JOPLIN, Mo. — The sun shone for the first time in days on this devastated city on Tuesday, illuminating the full extent of the damage as rescue workers performed the grim task of searching for survivors and victims in buildings leveled by the United States' deadliest tornado since modern record-keeping began.

Early yesterday morning, just as dawn was breaking over the scene of wreckage and death, a group of firefighters on a break from the grim routine of searching the rubble was seen in the Brooks Brothers store in 1 Liberty Plaza, joking and trying on coats and top hats.