Regular expression to extract whole sentences with matching word

Question

I would like to extract sentences with the word \"flung\" in the whole text.

For example, in the following text, I\'d like to extract the sentence \"It was exactly

Answer 1

"[A-Z]\\s?\\w*\\s?(([^(\\.\\s)|(\\?\\s)|(!\\s)])|\\s)*(?:your target\\s)(([^(\\.\\s)|(\\?\\s)|(!\\s)])|\\s)*(([^(\\.\\s)|(\\?\\s)|(!\\s)])|\\s)*[\\.|\\?|!]"

A sentence starts with any capital letter, in the middle it may contain decimal or abbreviation.

Answer 2

(?<=^|\s)[A-Z][^!?.]*( word\s*)[^!?.]*(?=\.|\!|\?)

Before first capital letter there is a line start or a white space, then it may consist any characters without set of [!?.](*)-or may not , then contains your target word with or without white spaces after it (if it is in the end of the sentence), then may consist again any characters without set of [!?.](*)-or not, and finally ends with dot or ! or ?.

Answer 3

Here you go,

[^.]* flung [^.]*\.

DEMO

OR

[^.?!]*(?<=[.?\s!])flung(?=[\s.?!])[^.?!]*[.?!]

DEMO

Answer 4

Simply anything between dots:

without a dote

[A-Za-z," ]+word[A-Za-z," ]+

with a dote

[A-Za-z," ]+word[A-Za-z," ]+\.