How to create a async timer function in react

Question

I created a search field, and I want this input to search as the user types word. But I don't want it to search letter by letter (that would be too expensive, and stupid). How can I create a funcion that reads the changes from my state, but wait for like 500ms and then finally search it. My code is like this right now:

const [searchField, setSearchField] = React.useState("");
cosnst [images, setImages] = React.useState([]);
React.useEffect(() => { 
   getAllImages()
} 
, [searchField])
const getAllImages = async () => {
   const imagesQuery = await axios.get("my-api-url");
   setImages(imagesQuery.data)
}

I tried using a setTimeOut... But the useEffect keeps acumulating re-renders...