Search and get a line in Python

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Is there a way to search, from a string, a line containing another string and retrieve the entire line?

For example:

string = 
    qwertyuiop
    asdfghjkl

    zxcvbnm
    token qwerty

    asdfghjklñ

retrieve_line("token") = "token qwerty"

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