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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The shift from a rescue mission to a recovery effort does not ease the urgency, Marrs said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2021
  • In April 2020, during the height of the pandemic in New York, a delicate rescue mission took place.
    — New York Times, 27 July 2021
  • Saturday's event is sold out, but there are more ways to help Pit Bulls of St. Francis with its rescue mission.
    — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Video footage of the harrowing rescue mission shows an aircrew member helping the boy, named Daniel, into a large metal rescue basket before he’s lifted up into the helicopter.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2024

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