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"Scouring" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Police are scouring security footage following a robbery in the city centre.
As the pirates were scouring the country, here and there, it happened that they met Daphnis, who was musing in a melancholy mood and rambling by the sea-shore, quite alone.
Where's the scouring pad?
Where is the scouring pad?
The cops were scouring the surrounding area.
Avoid using harsh abrasives or scouring pads that can damage the oven's surface.
Avoid using abrasive scouring pads that can scratch the utensils.
Nearby, a child scrambles up the side of a mountain of trash, scouring the rubbish for anything usable or salable.
Another for a violent scouring. Take the Entrails of a Pullet, or great Chicken, all but the Gizzard, and mix with tbem of Spikenard one Ounce, ' and make him swallow it, and this will infallibly stay his Scouring, yea, though it be a Bloody-Flux.
For that kind of lax and scouring called bloody flux, see the article BLOODY FLUX.
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Thus in 1670 the London bills ascribe 142 deaths to “bloody flux, scouring, and flux,” and 3,690 to “griping in the guts.”
Flux, bloody flux and scouring feature from the first, but were overtaken in the 1650s by 'plague in the guts', soon renamed 'griping in the guts'. An apparent decline in bloody flux was more than matched by high levels of 'griping in the guts'.
It was also found that scouring had occurred in the bed of the mill lade, which passes between the first and second piers.
Scouring the entire area revealed nothing.
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