rummage

How To Use rummage In A Sentence

• A rummage through the BBC archives shows a country suffering a great deal of angst.
• If she, Betty, could be allowed to "rummage" through it! A Little Girl in Old Boston
• But after a quick rummage through the brown leather bag, he snaps it shut and gestures to the door.
• He rummaged through the jumble of papers on his desk.
• I have come into villages where, had we acted a domineering part, and rummaged every hut, we should have found nothing; but by sitting down quietly, and waiting with patience until the villagers were led to form a favorable opinion of us, a woman would bring out a shellful of the precious fluid from I know not where. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
• She rummaged through her nightstand drawer until she found her journal.
• I think we could all benefit from a fresh rummage in our drawers to give our wardrobes and our figures the uplift we deserve.
• Women unable to feed the bellies of hungry children, were forced to rummage through garbage, and by the grace of God, and anointed creativity, found leftovers okra, rice, tomato, a scrap of pork and a fragment of shrimp to create a meal we call gumbo. Rev. Otis Moss III: A Blue Note Gospel
• Over the next half-hour, Chowdhury was searched and his bags rummaged.
• I rummaged through some boxes to find his leash and hooked it on his collar.