# Finding all occurrences of a phrase or sentence
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-all-occurrences-of-a-phrase-or-sentence/121925
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 28, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-all-occurrences-of-a-phrase-or-sentence/121925 "2018-02-28T18:56:00Z")
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### Author:  [@cpkthompson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cpkthompson)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-all-occurrences-of-a-phrase-or-sentence/121925/1 "2018-02-28T18:56:00Z")
Hello all,
I need help from a high level perspective (or a link to documentation) how I can find occurrences of a block of sentences in all documents indexed. For example: Say a specific version of the entire Bible in indexed in Elasticsearch together with about a 100 blog post writing commentary and quoting parts of this same Bible. How can I finding the linkages using Elasticsearch considering that a blog post may quote from different sections of the Bible. My guess is using a custom analyzer. Thanks
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### Author:  [@eperry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eperry)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-all-occurrences-of-a-phrase-or-sentence/121925/2 "2018-02-28T21:35:24Z")
You probably want to do a query string search based on the text that you want to search for.
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html)
Highlights will tell you where in the document field the data was found
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-highlighting.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-highlighting.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-all-occurrences-of-a-phrase-or-sentence/121925/3 "2018-03-28T21:35:28Z")
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