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

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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.
For any environmental journalist, myself included, a rummage through 30 years of the magazine is a salutary experience.
Nephew Jack's third letter again had me delving deep into my drawer full of old newspaper cuttings, and after a quick rummage around I found just what I was looking for.
I rummaged through my drawer for his key.
A quick rummage through the pockets confirms that everything is just where you left it last October.
Lucy was looking very sneaky as she rummaged through her drawers to find black leotards, a black turtleneck, and black gloves. E Is for Environment
He had a good rummage inside the sofa.
I can rummage around in the so-called dustbin of history for aesthetic flotsam like sewing patterns, and then wear them in front of my computer. Again with the Summer - A Dress A Day
Every weekend thousands of thrifty Yorkshire folk trek to windswept fields to rummage through boxes of junk in the hope of finding something special.
She rummaged around, hoping for inspiration, discarding brooches and beads and belts.
Bloom rummaged in his desk drawer and pulled out a laminated map of the building.
Hence perhaps why much is made of the variety of subject matter in Sebald's novels, like a lumber room in a rundown mansion ready for an enthusiast's rummage.
As her poor little body was being moved, a worn and crumpled red purse was found which seemed to have been rummaged from some trash dump.
He lives in the trailer park that Sandra lived in, and it was his church as you heard the sergeant addressing earlier in the press conference, was -- this suitcase that Sandra was apparently found in may have been at least reportedly headed for some kind of rummage sale, and may have been stolen. CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2009
The referee should also whistle immediately if any player in the scrummage is lifted off his feet or is forced upwards out of the scrummage.
he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis
Instead, I rummage through my bag, even though I'm sure all my cough drops are gone.
They scrummaged better, often disrupting their opponents efforts, and in the line-out they were considerably ahead as well.
The PR person rummaged through a desk in the suite and unearthed a ballpoint with the hotel logo on it.
The chimera reaches into the bag at her feet, and rummages around, pulling out a small ampoule filled with yellow smoke. Archive 2010-04-01
She handed over her mobile and I rummaged the few digits from my memory.
I rummaged in the sock drawer for a matching pair, flung on a jacket, and jammed my feet into trainers, and then walked to work in record time.
She rummaged in a snakeskin bag and held out a crystal decanter. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Stone cleaned the mastic off the wire and the access plate with a paper towel, then rummaged around in the parts locker. CORMORANT
They rummage through piles of second-hand clothes for something that fits.
With 20 minutes left and still a seven-man pack McKay went over following a back row pick up at a scrummage.
A rummage through the Rigby & Peller archive, which is stored in silk-lined suitcases in an office above its Conduit Street store in Mayfair, shows that a lot has changed since Vogue coined the term "brassiere" in 1907. From corsets for comedians to bespoke bras: Rigby & Peller has seen it all
Keighley's pack was seldom outplayed by Scarborough's robust efforts up front, even though it was shunted backwards from time to time in the scrummages.
That the hold in every ship should be rummaged and made predy, [4] especially by the ship's sides, and a carpenter with some man of trust appointed to go fore and after in hold to seek for shot that may come in under water; and that there should be provided in readiness plugs, pieces of sheet lead, and pieces of elm board to stop all leaks that might be found within board or without. Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX.
Stumbling into the kitchen in his boxer shorts, he rummaged through the refrigerator for something to placate his growl. TALES OF THE CITY
Hinch, now with a 3 point lead, had to fight hard in the final minutes to withstand a Belvedere onslaught as the home side pushed for the score with a series of 5 metre scrummages.
Plunging both hands deep into the sack she rummaged among the parcels.
Jack rummaged in his pocket, produced a fifty pence piece and proffered it in his open palm.
Valerie opened one of the drawers and rummaged through its contents.
Dropping the stone, she rummaged in the pocket hanging from her belt and pulled out the little dirk Maisey had given her and held it up in front of her. Healing the Highlander
In that discussion, I also explained that if they desired they could elect for non-contestable scrummages.
One of the guys leaned over to rummage around under the seat and produced some sardines, saltine crackers and a clear liquid in an unlabeled clear glass bottle.
But unlike the rugby scrummage, the American version allowed one team to hold possession of the ball.
Later that night, when she came home, she rummaged through her books in an effort to find an essay written by a polyglot (like herself) that explains the kind of rootlessness that is hers.
The visitors scrummaged well and had the dominant force in the line-out in the shape of their impressive big lock, Opeta Palepoi.
After an early set-back where Baildon scored a penalty, the forwards scrummaged well and stand-off Jamie Pinguenet kicked intelligently to establish good field positions.
In the event, Hilary rummaged around in the gym and found a cricket bat and ball.
Snickers rip pled in the room as she rummaged through the huge shoulder bag a purse.
Boarding and rummage of a merchant vessel presents no particular problem to us.
She rummaged up some change, and bought us some sodas.
Lirael swatted a mosquito, then turned her head as Sam came back and rummaged in his saddlebag. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Instead she rummaged through the trunk to find some clothes.
I shift to the left, disengaging our elbows, leaving room for him to rummage through our five favorite channels.
Nephew Jack's third letter again had me delving deep into my drawer full of old newspaper cuttings, and after a quick rummage around I found just what I was looking for.
`Are we supposed to stand barefoot on ice while we rummage through a bunch of stinking old shoes? THE BROKEN GOD
Have a rummage around in the drawer and see if you can find a pen.
I have the address here somewhere * rummage, rummage* - ah, yes: 10 Rillington Place. Army Rumour Service
Republican Administrations have been elected to enact the dramas of ego, vanity, paranoia, bravado, resentment, and one more grand rummage through historical baggage when the material and managerial condition of the country was good enough to survive the sustained period of incompetence, ineffectuality, abuse, raging, and waste that entails. Matthew Yglesias » What Bush Got Right
ADAM JONES The Wales scrummage went well and Jones was the cornerstone of that. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
I rummage through my recipes, which breeds a grocery list, which prompts a look-see in the cabinet, which results in tossing Rosh Hashanah honey that has crystallized, and then it's onto the fridge. Angela Himsel: Prepared for Passover -- Not!
She gave him a curt "Pastor," walking past him, her purse tight to her chest like an old lady at a rummage sale. KISSCUT
The earcups come factory-loaded with soft felt cup covers and a felt headrail pad, but if you rummage through the box again, you'll find replacement padding in faux-leather for the ear cups and the head rail. LR News
I lost things, had things stolen, had people rummage through my belongings, my drawers.
For some reason, perhaps to differentiate rugby melees from all the other tussles, the word evolved into ‘scrummage’ with a U.
He rummaged through several file drawers until he found two sheets of paper which he slid across the desk to me.
Every time I open a copy of Grazia, I see a picture of what looks like a manky student who's randomly grabbed their outfit from a Salvation Army rummage bin - only fifteen years older and with stringier hair. Never Mind the Birkenstocks
She rummaged in the cupboard, lifting out and rejecting one dish after another.
It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for the morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. Changing Times « Tales from the Reading Room
After I wiggled my toes to make sure they were still functioning, I rummaged around in the fridge for a yoghurt. SOMEBODY
Kendal's pack, missing some key men among six absent first-team regulars, suffered in the set scrummage but rucked and mauled well.
The opening section of the programme, in which the tiresome threesome rummage through the day's news stories, has fast become compulsive viewing, for all the wrong reasons.
He scrummaged well and always used his power correctly, working the right angles.
Beth hastily pulled on her nightdress, while Louis frantically rummaged around for his pyjama trousers.
To the dreamy melody of a Beethoven piano sonata, a child-like model rummaged through a trunk overflowing with clothes on a set designed as a girl's bedroom.
The customs official rummaged through the contents of his briefcase.
She took off an array of necklaces, charms, and amulets from her neck and began to rummage through them.
He went for a walk on the roof, for a rummage in a bin then went back on to the roof.
The customs official rummaged through the contents of his briefcase.
Consider purchasing an oversize sweater in good condition from a local thrift shop or rummage sale and cutting a new sweater from it.
He had a good rummage inside the sofa.
Frank noisily rummages around a drawer and gets a pack of cigarettes and lights one.
She rummaged through her clothes and pulled out a halter top and a mini skort.
Beth hastily pulled on her nightdress, while Louis frantically rummaged around for his pyjama trousers.
They rummage through piles of second-hand clothes for something that fits.
A mention must also go to the tight five who scrummaged hard all day and were full of running.
Stumbling into the kitchen in his boxer shorts, he rummaged through the refrigerator for something to placate his growl. TALES OF THE CITY
I rummaged in my bag for a pen.
a cheap Brummagem imitation
If you rummage around in the history of the popular song, you'll find innumerable instances of lyrics and musical passages appropriated and misappropriated willy-nilly.
Some one had rummaged through the drawer.
The game was purchased at a local church rummage sale that also netted us a juicer/meat grinder for $2, complete with reamer!
As he plugs in the percolator, and rummages through the refrigerator for coffee, he hears a knock on the door and runs over to answer it.
Brassy is not a polite adjective and in ecclesiastical circles in the twentieth century Brummagem brass came to be seen as the worst expression of commercial bad taste. Anthony Symondson on "Hardman of Birmingham"
Despite all those sweaty men who came, rummaged hopefully and yet failed to prise it over his nose.
They have teamed up with the council to rummage through bags of rubbish and to record car registration numbers which could pin-point offenders, and so far 80 illegal tippers have been identified.
Casually sneaking into Schuster Mannheim or Mendip’s room at the Regent for a rummage was a fantasy. Walls of Silence
With the two clubs monopolising the show in respective sections, the remaining participants had to rummage for the second best slots available.
He rummaged through his inside coat pocket and pulled out a small and very slim recording tape.
No longer will they have to wear rubber gloves to rummage through a bin liner, now it will be clean and dry and boxed up for them.
In the stables behind the house she who had carried him on his ride, having rummaged out her last grains of corn, lifted her nose and poked it through the bars of her loosebox to see what he was doing who had not carried her master that sweltering afternoon, and seeing that he was awake, she snorted lightly, to tell him there was thunder in the air. The Country House
She rummaged through it and pulled out a thick leather bound book, a feathered quill and a small pot of ink.
He rummaged through a kitchen drawer until he found a flashlight that worked.
The lutenist put down his instrument and rummaged through a side pocket of the case, and held up a pair of university concert tickets.
Lydia goes to the file cabinet and rummages in a folder.
I rummaged in my bag --- it's such a mess --- for my mobile, then hit the speed-dial button for Bea. RESCUING ROSE
In the afternoon Burginde rummaged amongst our wool sacks, feeling with her hands how much carded fleece was left.
Mullins began to rummage among the chaotic mess of papers on his desk.
At his smile they were embarrassed, and she went back to writing her note while he rummaged for a fourpenny nail. BARN BLIND
She gave him a curt "Pastor," walking past him, her purse tight to her chest like an old lady at a rummage sale. KISSCUT
They scrummaged better to retain possession and their mobile backs forced errors from the home side, creating promising field positions to score a couple of vital tries from incisive inter-play around the scrummage.
Not only has he scrummaged well on what for him is the ‘wrong’ side, but he has gambolled about the park like a spring chicken, knocking people over and generally contributing far more to loose play than anyone expected.
Arriving early one Saturday morning, we rummaged through the racks of cast-offs and almost immediately found a smart navy pinstripe; single-breasted, it had navy lining and flashes of red silk inside the pockets. Suits you, young sirs
In some parts of the country, criminal gangs will pay homeless people to rummage though dustbins for receipts and bank statements.
The aunt rummaged in her black flapjack handbag for a brochure. THE SHIPPING NEWS
She rummaged in her jewellery box, found the hankie mixed up with her gloves. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Futile or not, I rummaged through the contents of my case for the digitalin I had made for him. Dragonfly in Amber
This is not the way search engines work right now, where they generally search for phrases or words in the entire content of the pages they can see, ferreting around in more of a rummage than a skilled and honed inquiry.
He is dynamic and a good ball handler, yet he also has the ability to scrummage well.
He finally rummaged out her reply in the middle drawer of his desk.
I had placed my big medicine box out of the way in one corner; now I rummaged about in it and withdrew one of the small glass urinoscopy cups I had acquired from L'HÃ´pital des Anges. Dragonfly in Amber
Beth hastily pulled on her nightdress, while Louis frantically rummaged around for his pyjama trousers.
So far the English pack had had slightly the better of the scrummages, but France more than made up for that in the line-out and their quickness and splendid handling in the open.
You rummage through piles of junk in the hopes of finding a gem amongst the detritus.
The amount has been partly raised by offertories £44 3s, proceeds of the four annual rummage sales £22 8s 6d, concerts £5 8s, while it also includes £11 12s 6d handed over by the late Vicar.
I rummaged in the sock drawer for a matching pair, flung on a jacket, and jammed my feet into trainers, and then walked to work in record time.
I seem in the mood to read overlong pretentious epics - I really should go for a rummage in an airport bookshop or something and get it out of my system.
I have rummaged every record bars in Cavite and Metro Manila and I still can’t find any copies of The Young and the Hopeless. Archive 2007-12-01
He rummaged about among the pile of old books, but didn't find that novel.
The scramble to the hospital allowed time only for a rummage in the glove compartment of our car, which provided a battered copy of Twenty Golden Country Greats as the sole musical accompaniment to the birth.
Auctions aren't so much funerals as autopsies, where you really do get to rummage through the personal bric-a-brac.
Missing some key men among six absent first-team regulars, they suffered in the set scrummage but rucked and mauled well.
Because the Times has stubbornly (and inimically) refused to protect its hard-earned content, sites like the Beast or The Week can rummage through full papers, take the wheat, and leave the chaff — all without paying a dime. Rob Fishman: Initiating a Culture of Compensation
Holding up singles and pairs of socks in various shades and hues, she rummaged - apparently searching for an appropriate pair.
He rummaged around the post room and found the document.
You have to rummage around in it for ages trying to find a rubber or pencil sharpener.
They can tackle the recipient and hope to win the scrummage put-in themselves.
I rummaged all the drawers before I found my ballpoint pen.
But after a quick rummage through the brown leather bag, he snaps it shut and gestures to the door.
Now and again he has a good rummage though his bookshelf to see what he can find, and at the moment he's reading a book of Robert Browning's poetry.
Carly rummaged around in the cooler, and fished out a six-pack of soda.
The slim, handsome woman vividly recalls the backbreaking work from sunrise to sunset clearing forests, digging irrigation canals and planting rice; hunting for frogs, rats and snakes to eat; seeing corpses piled high on oxcarts rumbling off to mass graves; her son dying on a garbage heap as he rummaged for fish bones to eat. - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
I can move stuff from place to place sort of like a modern archaeologist using machinery doing his rummage through history.
He chuckles to himself, rummages through his coat's pockets for his pipe.
I pulled out all his drawers, rummaged through his files and papers.
While Renee waited, she rummaged through her purse, searching for her billfold so that she could pay for her coffee.
Neither of the men ‘rummaged’ in the waste, as it was a sackable offence to do so, but they moved a couple of bags before deciding the task was impossible.
He opened the wardrobe, rummaged among his clothes and finally produced a black poloneck sweater in merino wool. THE KEYS OF HELL
Mullins began to rummage among the chaotic mess of papers on his desk.
After 53 minutes, two powerful Lions scrummages set them rolling.
he rummaged through a box of spare parts
I dug in my handbag for my penlight, got up on tiptoe in my clumpy shoes, and rummaged in the first box. LEGAL TENDER
Boarding and rummage of a merchant vessel presents no particular problem to us.
Claire continued to rummage through the saddlebag.
I wasn't on best form, still suffering a little from my recent attack of the wearies, so I began to flag about half-way round the store, seeking places to sit for a while as Graham rummaged.
Though the city is witnessing changes in the system of solid waste disposal, old habits of street urchins to rummage through the garbage bins for various kinds of scrapes seem to continue.
Don't expect any glamour here: the shops are spartan in the extreme and completely disorganised, with customers left to rummage through piles of clothing that are unsorted by size, colour, label or anything else.
Her purse jingled as she rummaged through it before removing a single handkerchief, rosy pink with white speckles, and dabbing her tweaked brow.
It was only when the former home help saw an appeal for the winner of the three-week-old jackpot to come forward that a cupboard rummage produced the winning numbers.
While the kids grabbed blocks, he rummaged in a locker behind the pipe and pulled out a sort of aqualung, some rubber gloves, and swim fins.
His house in Berlin was rummaged along the Nazis. Einstein gave up his German citizenship in 1932 and became a naturalised dweller inhabitant in 1940.
I rummaged in the garden for the newspaper and made a mental note to wake up at six thirty and throw a stone at the paper boy.
She plonked it on the table and continued to rummage. Unwritten
Perhaps, the rich people should learn from the poor beggars who always rummage through the garbage for their daily survival.
Set in a depressing flat on a south London estate, teenager Luke rummages down the back of a grubby sofa in a fruitless search for something.
*rummages around closet looking for Viking paraph…paraf…stuff* I has a flava flav - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
I rummaged in my pack for nay emergency fishing gear, cut down a 10-foot sapling, tied on my line, sinker, and bobber, then sat down by the stream to relax.
Lirael swatted a mosquito, then turned her head as Sam came back and rummaged in his saddlebag. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Instead she rolled over and rummaged through her bedside table for the remote to her stereo.
The scramble to the hospital allowed time only for a rummage in the glove compartment of our car, which provided a battered copy of Twenty Golden Country Greats as the sole musical accompaniment to the birth.
She rummaged in the desk drawers for her notebook.
Cole rummaged around in the drawer to find a spoon and peered under the sink to find the dry food and cans of food.
She opened the light green fridge, an odd colour but it was just regular by Val's standards, and rummaged through the bare contents.
He had a rummage around and saw something familiar.
In the event, Hilary rummaged around in the gym and found a cricket bat and ball.
They will be on the front line for England's World Cup challenge, their scrummages setting the tone for every match played, their battle within a battle defining the powerbase for the game.
Speaking of which, the sauce was what I like to call a rummage recipe. Archive 2006-08-01
He rummaged in a drawer and pulled out a couple of dog-eared tickets. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
This well attended enjoyable fair is well worth a rummage and browse through the different stalls.
She rummaged through her drawer and found the directions to Megan's house.
The padlock on my garden shed was sawn open and the contents rummaged through though nothing was stolen due to a heavy main gate preventing this.
Snickers rip pled in the room as she rummaged through the huge shoulder bag a purse.
We rummaged through the drawers
They rummage through piles of second-hand clothes for something that fits.
As they get older they leave their parents alone, and rummage through the kitchen to concoct their own breakfasts.
A block north of this statuary is The Church of the Holy Name, which had a rummage sale. September 29th, 2007
A reorganised Kirkby front row competed well and the pack scrummaged well to take three against the head.
But it didn’t say “Don’t marry someone of a different belief” it said don’t marry foreigners. *let me dig out my trusty, well-worn, highligted bible, rummage rummage* The Definition of Marriage in 1886
She rummaged through her bag and dug out a muesli bar, trying to keep the wrinkly wrapper quiet as she unwound it.
Mamacita, the annual Christmas fair continues on Sunday, November 18, from 12: 00 to 6: 00. $1 glogg as you walk in the door, a nice “grocery” on the main crafts-and-rummage level, and a half-dozen varieties of $4-to-$7 open-faced sandwiches in the dining area downstairs. Lunch at the Norwegian Church Fair… Who’s with me? | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
She rummaged around the cutlery drawer and came up with a ladle.
A sudden inspiration caused Jordan to hop out of bed and rummage through her desk drawer to find a pad of paper and pen.
Dressed in his Garda tunic, the thief asked the woman for identification and rummaged through her handbag before rifling some cash.
Daren padded over to the small credenza and rummaged through it, coming up with two candy bars.
He rummaged around for a moment and returned with a pair of black pants and a light blue sleeveless top.
I had a rummage around/about , but I couldn't find my certificate anywhere.
We scrummaged well enough, but where they had the advantage here was in being able to put the scrum up when they wanted to and give their back row that extra bit of space and time to operate.

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