Sentence examples for manhunt from inspiring English sources
The word 'manhunt' is correct and usable in written English
It is usually used to describe a coordinated search for a fugitive or criminal. For example: "The authorities have launched a massive manhunt for the escaped prisoner."
noun
An organized search for a criminal or enemy.
- After the murderer escaped, there was a full-scale manhunt to catch him.
His fortunes changed when he was arrested in Guatemala in June 1993 as part of a manhunt that followed a dramatic shootout in the airport car park of the central Mexican city of Guadalajara in which a cardinal was killed in his car.
Should you ever find yourself needing to leave the country in a hurry – and haven't we all been the target of a nationwide manhunt now and again?
He said: "The LRA leader is the subject of an international manhunt by a joint force of Ugandan, Congolese, Sudanese and Central African troops.
New York state police were joined in a manhunt by investigators from the FBI, heavily armed Swat teams, forest rangers and local police.
A major manhunt for the family was launched after Brett and Naghemeh King took the boy from the hospital without consent, leading to fears he could die without the specialist care he had been receiving in hospital.
It's based on the home-grown anarchist terrorist group and the police manhunt to track them down, but has more contemporary relevance than you might think.
A manhunt for her body proved futile.
Following a huge manhunt, Dzhokhar was found and charged with placing explosives at the Boston marathon that killed three people.
Mr Carnahan's name cannot be replaced on ballot papers before the election.After Peru's disgraced spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, flew back from exile in Panama, President Alberto Fujimori personally led a manhunt to track him down.
Not only do most of the victims live in and around Boston, but also thousands in the surrounding municipalities were subject to a voluntary lock-down during the subsequent manhunt.
Federal police captured Mr Gómez on February 27th, ending one of the biggest manhunts conducted under the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto.The drug lord's only consolation is that five days later security forces also seized Omar Treviño Morales, the head of his gang's biggest rival, the Zetas, in a swanky suburb of Monterrey, in northern Mexico.
