How to Use rescue mission in a Sentence
rescue mission
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The crew of the Mayaguez was set free, but not thanks to the rescue mission.
—Dominic Tierney, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024
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No one thought that the drone flight would lead to a rescue mission.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
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By the end of the day, the Coast Guard announced that the rescue mission had ended.
—Erin Cox, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
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The two men were part of the rescue mission that found all 13 people alive about 2.5 miles from the cave mouth.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2022
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There was so much that could have gone wrong in this rescue mission.
—ABC News, 9 June 2024
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The triumph of the hostage rescue mission comes amid pain across Israel and Gaza.
—USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
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It will be used to track suspects or go on search and rescue missions.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
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That rescue mission was watched around the world as the Thai navy and emergency crews worked to free the group, which was trapped for more than two weeks.
—Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
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The Israeli Homefront Command Team is one of the teams sent to help with the massive search and rescue mission.
—Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 27 June 2021
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But for now, Brinkerhoff and her polar ice machine are on a rescue mission of sorts, one that’s taking them to the end of the Earth.
—Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2021
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Why not have Joyce and Murray mount a rescue mission for Hopper that’s absurd even by the standards of the show?
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 July 2022
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According to the publication, the cruise missed two ports of calls due to the rescue mission.
—Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2023
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There were no updates on the search-and-rescue mission as of Thursday morning.
—Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
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So the Royeens mounted their own search-and-rescue mission.
—Deepa Fernandes, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2022
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In total, the rescue mission took five hours to complete, according to the LVFD.
—Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
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Stepping out the door, rushing out for another rescue mission, the north tower of the bridge feels close enough to touch.
—John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
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The shift from a rescue mission to a recovery effort does not ease the urgency, Marrs said.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2021
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In April 2020, during the height of the pandemic in New York, a delicate rescue mission took place.
—New York Times, 27 July 2021
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The rescue mission all started when Teigen heard some faint scratching within a wall.
—Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2021
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Directed by Mike Diva, the video sends Doja Cat on a rescue mission with an elite crew of dancers.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2022
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The Texas Game Wardens provided K-9 support for the search and rescue mission.
—Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2023
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After a day-long search, officials called off the rescue mission and said the workers are presumed dead.
—Holly Yan, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
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In it, a farmer gets separated from his flock and loses his memory in the big city, so the sheep go on a rescue mission.
—Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
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By the morning of June 19, the rescue mission was fully underway.
—Alex Christian, WIRED, 29 June 2023
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That's when the training mission turned into a rescue mission.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2022
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Heavy-lift drones could also be used to help in potential rescue missions.
—Amir Emadi, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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As Bowman sets out in his own pod on a (too-late) rescue mission, HAL shuts down the systems for the cryocoffins, killing the astronauts inside.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
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The rescue mission took over an hour, according to Haley.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
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To assist those with food insecurity, the rescue mission, the largest food re-distributer in the county, has launched Plates of Plenty.
—Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024
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Another, first discovered in the 1980s near the remains of a boat, is now thought to belong to a senior Roman soldier likely sent on a rescue mission, based on his belt and weapons.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 22 June 2024
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