How to Use rescue mission in a Sentence

rescue mission

noun

• The crew of the Mayaguez was set free, but not thanks to the rescue mission.
  — Dominic Tierney, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024
• No one thought that the drone flight would lead to a rescue mission.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• By the end of the day, the Coast Guard announced that the rescue mission had ended.
  — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• The 160th was set up after the failure of the U.S. hostage rescue mission in Iran.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Oct. 2019
• 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
• There was so much that could have gone wrong in this rescue mission.
  — ABC News, 9 June 2024
• The triumph of the hostage rescue mission comes amid pain across Israel and Gaza.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• This search-and-rescue mission is part of a wider effort.
  — National Geographic, 3 Dec. 2019
• The American at the center of the rescue mission was Maj.
  — Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
• It will be used to track suspects or go on search and rescue missions.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
• Weeks passed with no sign of Nylo, and the rescue mission turned into a dive search.
  — The Enquirer, 26 Apr. 2021
• Thus begins the tale of the greatest rescue mission in the history of mankind.
  — Rex Crum, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• The search for Rivera has shifted from a rescue mission to a recovery one, with the star presumed dead.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2020
• 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
• 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
• The group’s journey is both a decades-later rescue mission and a treasure hunt.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 June 2020
• Hegar was shot down and wounded while flying a rescue mission in Afghanistan.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 24 July 2019
• According to the publication, the cruise missed two ports of calls due to the rescue mission.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2023
• There were no updates on the search-and-rescue mission as of Thursday morning.
  — Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• The mystery was heightened even more by his absence from the rescue mission.
  — Will Thorne, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• So the Royeens mounted their own search-and-rescue mission.
  — Deepa Fernandes, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2022
• In total, the rescue mission took five hours to complete, according to the LVFD.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
• 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
• Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table embark on a rescue mission as Saxon hordes prepare to invade.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Since then, the search-and-rescue team has completed about 35 rescue missions, Reuther said.
  — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
• But the rescue mission didn’t stop there: Sivley then drove the couple north to feed their cats, who were living on a farm with no power.
  — Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2021
• Their deaths are even more devastating because the flight began as a rescue mission.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
• The big picture: Search and rescue missions were underway Tuesday to track down those still unaccounted for in western North Carolina.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024