Rummage

"Rummage" in a Sentence (15 examples)

The rummage sale netted me a profit.

Tom opened the drawer and began to rummage through it.

Many of them are squatters who live in the barrio's plywood and corrugated metal shacks, as pigs rummage through the garbage for leftovers.

Ziri started to rummage greedily in his mom's purse.

Fyodor started to rummage through Anna's things, throwing her belongings throughout the tent.

After the long voyage, the customs officers rummaged the ship.

She rummaged her purse in search of the keys.

The burglars rummaged the entire house for cash and jewellery.

He[…]searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.

What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account!

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British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.

She rummaged in the drawers trying to find the missing sock.

Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

Have a rummage through the attic and see if you can find anything worth selling.

He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.

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