call off a search
abandon a search

Officials called off a search for her on Monday evening.

State troopers called off a search earlier this week.

But this spring, Dr. Paolucci called off a search for his successor.

POLICE last night called off a search to find the mother of a two-year-old girl who was abandoned in a busy hospital.

Nonsense, Israeli officials replied, saying that they had no intention of calling off a search that goes to the core of Jewish heritage.

The Coast Guard has called off a search for four Maine fishermen who disappeared off the coast of Nantucket over the weekend.

Law-enforcement officials from two states have called off a search for a missing heiress after concluding that a prison inmate had led them on a wild goose chase.

The teams occupied two apartment buildings in the southern sector of the city and called artillery fire on their position to persuade the Iraqis to call off a search of the area.

The coast guard said it had called off a search for a lone American rower in the Atlantic after his emergency search beacon was found floating alone in the sea.

The Waco police have called off a search for the body of the missing Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported today.

It also announced that its acting president and chief executive, Marianne Nivert, would keep those posts until she retires in September 2002, and called off a search for an immediate replacement.

You no doubt think of yourselves as Christians, as God-fearing men, yet you call off a search and condemn those girls to death in the wilds, perhaps, just because of your foolish superstition."

When Sinfield prematurely called off a search for a missing judge in the Cursed Earth, endangering his life, Dredd lodged a formal complaint against Sinfield with the Council of Five.

The Kmart Corporation denied a report yesterday saying that it had called off a search for a No. 2 executive who would serve as a potential heir to the company's beleaguered president and chief executive, Joseph E. Antonini.

Frankly, to expect a campaign chief to call off a search for a document that would have changed the result of an election is to presume a degree of ethical purity rare in politics, but let us stipulate that State's political appointees grossly abused their governmental power.

Police abandoned a search for him after the likelihood of foul play was eliminated.

Cases like these represent a kind of generational fault line on a Court that often appears to have abandoned a search for common ground.

On September 8, 2001, rescuers abandoned a search for a 24-year-old Hungarian exchange student who had been missing for six days.

Search for Victims Called Off Divers abandoned a search this afternoon for the British captain and four seamen missing from the tender Anita that sank Saturday.

"So, at the beginning of the summer solstice, when, in the innermost reaches of the forest, its creatures gathered to celebrate the new year, the badger abandoned a search for which he no longer cared, and returned to the circle of his newfound comrades.