How To Use Scouring In A Sentence

They also deprive Australian livestock of food by scouring the cultivated rangelands, which also facilitates erosion.
Hurling supporters in neighbouring parishes are scouring local GAA officials in the hope of getting a ticket to the September 12 Final.
The Government began scouring the country for land that could be turned over to growing crops. The Sun
So while artists in 1860s Paris were discovering the beauty of Japanese "floating world" — or ukiyo-e — woodblock prints, many Japanese artists were heading to Yokohama, scouring European publications and creating their own genre of exotica: the Yokohama-e. How Japan Saw Us
Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, a recent exile from London, who also loves scouring the beaches. WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR JANUARY 3RD | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews

The Atlanta Games will boast an "official" scouring pad and timepiece, two official game shows, and three official vehicles: a family car, an import minivan and a luxury sedan.
I got out of the car and crunched across the snow, each breath of cold air scouring my lungs like steel wool.
By the time I finish my lunch, including that slice of cake I wasn't going to have, the two waiters under the table laden with the tempting mounds of sweets have finished scouring the baseboards.
Fund managers are constantly scouring the UK for companies with steadily rising earnings-per-share and smaller companies with access to ground-breaking new technologies.
Plumes of spindrift were scouring the top, leaving nothing but a swooping white cleaver of ice.
He had told her that there would always be street urchins, to young and weak to work, scouring the streets for pockets to pick.
Equisetum are known as horsetails, foxtails, or scouring rushes - this last name is derived from the fact that Equisetum stores granules of silica within its cells, making it an effective tool for scrubbing pots and polishing wood.
They spend hours scouring the wires and trolling for trade partners in search of the final piece in a championship run.
Then about 150 years ago the glacial dam burst, loosing a 100-foot, landscape-scouring wave that wiped out entire villages.
The proceeding two or so hours were very dull, revolving around the sorting of odd socks, scouring of pans and declogging of plugholes that are pretty run of the mill for most females of an evening.
Pupils are scouring the internet looking for embarrassing photographs of them. Times, Sunday Times
They are free certainly, but they are also degraded, rejected, the offscum and the offscouring of the very dregs of your society .... American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
It is well known that the wool of sheep dying of disease, if it had not been shorn from the animal while living, and also skins, if not thoroughly prepared by scouring, are liable to the effects described in this passage. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
They are also scouring rivers, parks, open land and allotments. The Sun
As far back as 1992, the artist himself began scouring around like a gumshoe to assemble the many authentic, '40s-era objects included in Durant.
Finding an old water mill to recommission generally means scouring the listings of rural estate agents and auction houses.
Police forensics teams were scouring both houses for evidence yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
The days spent scouring the seas for whales to save are long and dreary. Times, Sunday Times
Fergus and Miles are two of the country's top professional foragers, scouring the countryside for everything from bittercress to dandelions for London's most savvy chefs.
For now they must brew the Christmas ale, steep the Christmas fish in lye, and do their Christmas baking and Christmas scouring. Further Adventures of Nils
But she said her group has seen similar trends before, including the scouring of oceans for clownfish after the 2003 release of the animated film "Finding Nemo" and the rush to buy Dalmations – that were subsequently dumped at animal shelters – after movies in the Disney franchise "101 Dalmations. 'Year Of The Rabbit' Actually Threatens Furry Animal
My mom and I are scouring New York City for a cream-colored cocktail dress that will show off my long legs.
The post involved scouring the world for gadgets and gizmos. Times, Sunday Times
Anya resumed scouring the floor for her missing shoe, walking with a stumping gait.
No tool marks survive on the surface of the boat as a result of repeated scourings by wind, sand and water.
a sea voyage, and a little scouring about in what you call the lonesome places, would do me such good! Hide and Seek
Footsteps echoed through out the corridor as the light danced over its surface, scouring over the walls, unmasking the darkness and exposing all of the details beneath its harsh brutality.
The days spent scouring the seas for whales to save are long and dreary. Times, Sunday Times
Author Adam Jacot de Boinod spent two years scouring old dictionaries, dialect books and slang glossaries from across the world to amass the collection. Home
He stopped scouring the floor and looked up at me, ‘Amazingly, cleaning helps me get my mind off of being self-destructive.’
During the last glacial period, Lake Missoula filled and burst through its ice dam some 40 times or more, scouring eastern Washington to create what is called the channeled scablands. Trout and Salmon of North America
Designers are scouring the animal kingdom for exotic species to turn into bags, shoes and all manner of trendiness.
Jack looked up, his eyes scouring over the many cones and dozens of police-men scattered around the area.
How do you find that phone if you are not scouring broadly all the possibilities, while trying to make sure you use necessity and proportionality? Times, Sunday Times
They are offscourings of Europe who have sought these shores to abuse the hospitality and defy the authority of the country. The History of May Day
The days spent scouring the seas for whales to save are long and dreary. Times, Sunday Times
Pupils are scouring the internet looking for embarrassing photographs of them. Times, Sunday Times
The "offscourings" of London, which the companies carried rather more to the southward than the northward with us, were hardly scoured off in London Films
ANT and Dec are scouring the country for practical jokers. The Sun
Airfare consolidators and discount travel specialists can create cheaper-than-ever globe-spanning itineraries by scouring the industry for closeout prices.
The phrase conjured up the image of a hive of busy accountants in green eyeshades, scouring the tax code for hidden exemptions.
The sharp Bohemian, by playing at all trades, brushing against gentry of all sorts and scouring all neighborhoods, becomes at length a living cyclopaedia. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
-- The article undergoes the process of scouring before described, and, after being well rinsed and drained, it is put on a board, and the thread-bare parts rubbed with a half-worn hatter's card, filled with flocks, or with a teazle or a prickly thistle, until Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
Scouring the United States for ideas, he ran across the word privatization in the work of the economic and social theorist Peter Drucker. THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS
Iza dug up the red-rooted pigweed and headed for a marshy area beside sluggish backwater and found scouring-rush horsetail ferns and, farther upstream, soaproot. The Clan of the Cave Bear
Great stuff - this can actually make a difference to their work, and I feel that is is actually worth scouring the house for things people have not used for a few weeks, in the secure knowledge that they will be put to good use and go to a good cause, rather than my previous sneaking suspicion that they would end upas landfill. Princess Alice Hospice
Then, the scouring and silting characteristics of debris flow and their affecting factors including debris flow scale and local channel condition were explored by analyzing field survey data.
The rate of scouring in Chinese herb feed additive group was lowest, 1.38 %.
Japanese companies are scouring the world for alternative sources. Times, Sunday Times
Since it uses a reverse electroplating process, there's no abrasive action from bore scouring brushes and no possibility of scratching the lands and grooves.
The greatest scoundrel is always captain of the band of patrols; they are the offscouring of all things, the refuse, the fag end, the ears and tails of slavery; the scales and fins of fish, the tooth and tongues of serpents; they are the very fool's cap of baboons, the echo of parrots, the wallet and satchel of pole-cats, the scum of stagnant pools, the exuvial, the worn out skins of slaveholders; they dress in their old clothes; Narrative of the sufferings of Lewis Clarke : during a captivity of more than twenty-five years, among the Algerines of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of America, by dictated
Its energy companies are scouring the globe for opportunities, but the most obvious solution remains out of reach. Times, Sunday Times
Indian companies are scouring the globe to secure crude resources and reduce their dependence on imported oil.
Rorlund: Oh, I would rather not speak of such offscourings of humanity as that. Pillars of Society
A huge police operation was carried out on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to unearth any clues with divers scouring the waters of the River Ribble at the docks.
Wool -- this is, by a specific rate on the grease pound (i. e., unscoured) -- operates to exclude wools of high shrinkage in scouring but fine quality from the American market and thereby lessens the range of wools available to the domestic manufacturer; that the duty on scoured wool Of State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
Simultaneously, as the labor scholar Samuel Yellen has described, they fueled anti-immigrant sentiment by branding these same individuals--who were responsible for the bulk of their corporate profits--a savage "rabble . . . who are the offscourings of Europe. Mark Cassello: Labor and Capital in the 21st Century: Legacy of the Haymarket Affair
ANT and Dec are scouring the country for practical jokers. The Sun
Thus, sir, when men dye cloth, the liquor in which they dip it hath very sharp and abstersive particles; which, consuming and scouring off all the matter that filled the pores, make the cloth more apt to receive the dye, because its pores are empty and want something to fill them up. Symposiacs
The post involved scouring the world for gadgets and gizmos. Times, Sunday Times
Officers in the former Soviet republic are scouring his old haunts in the capital in case he has returned. The Sun
I'm still scouring through the record bins of old farmers who have died.
So saying he gave the little galopin his donative, and a slight rap on the pate at the same time, which sent him scouring from his presence. Saint Ronan's Well
Armed with a re-engineered debris vacuum, 8-foot-wide sweepers and a Smart Car, pooper-scooper Jim Coniglione spends a lot of time scouring New York for traces of Canada geese. Down and Dirty: Cleaning After Geese
What Carbomask does well is camouflage your face with a nonglare paint that washes off easily-no scouring pad needed-with soap and water. Hutton Lab's Carbomask camouflage face paint
Back in their offices and newsrooms back-up teams were scouring libraries for background material. LET NOT THE DEEP
'Mumpreneurs' have been selling their products on websites such as eBay and Etsy, while scouring discount sites for bargains.
Its energy companies are scouring the globe for opportunities, but the most obvious solution remains out of reach. Times, Sunday Times
But for a sudden, necessary purchase, it is worth scouring the charity shops at any season.
The calcareous outcrop area in Leeds, St. Clair County, Alabama, is a site with soils too thin to support woody arborescent vegetation and is subjected to frequent scouring from a near-by stream, keeping it in an open sunny condition.
I had a scrubber wash me down for 20 minutes, using scouring pad mittens and a really abrasive paste that helped to remove most of my dead skin.
He began scouring the country for venues that met his ambitions, making many hotel owners rich when he snapped up their assets. Times, Sunday Times
You may need to add grains of rice or beans and shake to get scouring action with these products also.
Scouring the Latvian woods and lakeside territories for the capercaillie is reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's epic poem ‘The Hunting of the Snark’.
Perhaps even now there were clanswomen scouring Artemisia, looking for her. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
The Government began scouring the country for land that could be turned over to growing crops. The Sun
The crumbled concrete has sat in heaps for so long that erosion has begun to soften its edges, scouring away the memory of blocks and mortar. Coco McCabe: Haiti: One Man, Six Hats, and a Proverb About Hope
The place was thronged with the offscourings of Paris, and Hervagault found himself in congenial quarters. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton
Never clean with abrasives, scouring powder or steel wool.
It seems the girls are having a much harder time of it, scouring the shops of Edinburgh for the perfect frock.
Scouring removed some mud, but only dislodged the rest and sent it downstream to the next weir.
Forensic teams were yesterday scouring the area for clues, while detectives conducted house to house interviews.
: cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous Club Troppo
A thousand were injured and rescuers were still scouring the rubble for survivors. The Sun
Of the occupants, no sign, hence the chopper, scouring the gorse with a thermal imager. Times, Sunday Times
Search and rescue crews are scouring the Kahurangi National Park in "atrocious" weather for a French tramper who has been missing for three days.
The victim simply views the screen to make his or her decision and police don't have to waste valuable hours scouring the streets for line-up lookalikes.
Combination of pectinases and cellulases can pro - duce consonancy effect and scouring more effective.
They are free certainly but they are also degraded, rejected, the offscum and the offscouring of the very dregs of your society; they are free from the chain, the whip, the enforced task and unpaid toils of slavery; but they are not the less under a ban. "[ The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
Over the meadows spread the regular Chinese-pagodas of the equisetum, (horsetail or scouring-rush,) and the rich coarse vegetation of the veratrum, or American hellebore. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
Coincidentally, the boating people also realised that they must have miscounted, and jets set out scouring the seas for them.
I've been scouring the bins for a clean version of this for years.
The days spent scouring the seas for whales to save are long and dreary. Times, Sunday Times
“And now that you are come in, Mr Henry,” said the cross old woman, “what for do you no tak up your candle and gang to your bed? and mind ye dinna let the candle sweal as ye gang alang the wainscot parlour, and haud a’ the house scouring to get out the grease again.” Old Mortality
Then she set to with bleach and scouring pads to render the vases spotless.
The only people in the world to whom it denies these rights are not its quondam slaves, not pagans, not runaway convicts, not the offscourings of any nation however degraded, but the original owners of the country. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
Carbon disulphide has also been patented, but, as will afterward be shown, the old method of removing it from the wool injured the color and quality of the fiber, so as to make the application of this scouring agent a failure. Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
While the four catwalk wannabes were being transformed by a top team of stylists, hairdressers and make-up artists, scouts from top agency Models 1 were scouring the store for new talent.
It is usually caused by the scouring action of sand, gravel, slag, earth, and other gritty material.
Accustomed to ensilage, a full ration of alfalfa would start the cows scouring and by tomorrow morning the pasture would stink.
Tara Smith has a good post about this, including a persuasive argument for scouring the word "prokaryote" from your vocabulary. Another Big Example of Reductive Evolution?
I love scouring pawnshops and Cash Converters, used book, CD and video stores.
He's been out for hours every day, scouring the city for news of Mr Paul. STAGE FRIGHT
Driving his bloodthirsty hordes ever forward, the Dark Lord began scouring every single dimension, leaving no stone unturned.
With the first warm day ye have your windows wide open; and next your beds are into a draught fit to blaw ye from between the sheets; and then ye're up in the morning, aff on a hoorse scouring the hills as tho 'ye were gyte; and at the end your valise's packed, the coach stopped, and ye aff amang the heathen, Gude alane kens wheer! Nancy Stair A Novel
He felt the rough bristles of its hide scouring his own furless skin.
Accustomed to ensilage, a full ration of alfalfa would start the cows scouring and by tomorrow morning the pasture would stink.
I know because I'm scouring each and every one of them for some morsel of insight that will lead me to the best spot.
Aerial surveys show that Louisiana's barrier islands have sustained especially heavy losses from Katrina's scouring winds and waves.
Over the meadows spread the regular Chinese-pagodas of the equisetum, (horsetail or scouring-rush,) and the rich coarse vegetation of the veratrum, or American hellebore. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
Using a damp cloth and plastic scouring pad, wipe the inside of the oven cavity and heating elements removing any food residue or grease.
The word connoisseur means, 'the people that think your tastes are so far below them, you are no better than a garbage scouring raccoon'. Archive 2008-02-01
She reached for a cloth and began scouring the countertop. SLEEP WHILE I SING
Before you start scouring for deals, keep in mind that owning rental properties is time-consuming, expensive and fraught with challenges, and many investors lose money.
: cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous Club Troppo
Search vessels and helicopters continued scouring the choppy seas despite fading hopes of finding the nine still missing from the boat.
The phrase conjured up the image of a hive of busy accountants in green eyeshades, scouring the tax code for hidden exemptions.
Clooney is superb as the vain, foppish McGill, scouring the stores for his preferred brand of hair pomade even as the police manhunt draws ever closer.
I have to make sure that my material is bang up-to-date, which means scouring the web to check for new developments.
It does not mean scouring the cultural past for attractive, amusing and above all ‘accessible’ trouvailles, or retreating from reality into mysticism.
Two lifeboats, a rescue helicopter, an RAF Hercules plane and two Navy war ships spent 30 hours scouring the seas and coast but his body was never found.
As he looks back in his new book, "Fork It Over," at meals variously enjoyed or regretted but generally paid for by someone else, one accomplishment stands out: whether he's taking Sharon Stone to lunch at Manhattan's ultrachic March or scouring the delicatessens of Brooklyn in search of the oldest living Jewish waiter, Richman goes out of his way to be recognized by restaurant owners. A FOODIE UNMASKS
scouring the entire area revealed nothing
Imagine scouts scouring the woods with a lantern -- with a _lantern_, Renny! In the Midst of Alarms
Both of these substances are mild abrasives and can be used as an alternative to chlorine scouring powders.
One of the joys of doing this semi-regular feature, scouring through catalogs, is every so often you come across a real jewel, or at least something that makes you sit up and take notice. Thin wallets, fat bookshelves: HarperCollins fall catalog | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
My mom and I are scouring New York City for a cream-colored cocktail dress that will show off my long legs.
Its energy companies are scouring the globe for opportunities, but the most obvious solution remains out of reach. Times, Sunday Times
The habitat is seasonally inundated, and flood scouring appeared to occur on a periodic basis.
Tyson's handlers, scouring the globe for a safe opponent, scheduled his next fight on June 11 with club fighter Kevin McBride, the slowest prizefighter in the business.
Subsequent to the pre - washing zone, impregnation of the fabric with scouring and bleaching chemicals takes place.
And now that you are come in, Mr Henry," said the cross old woman, "what for do you no tak up your candle and gang to your bed? and mind ye dinna let the candle sweal as ye gang alang the wainscot parlour, and haud a 'the house scouring to get out the grease again. Old Mortality, Complete
The victim simply views the screen to make his or her decision and police don't have to waste valuable hours scouring the streets for line-up lookalikes.
Meanwhile scientists are scouring the world to find frost-tolerant varieties of wheat and triticale.
So I used the old-fashioned method (so much more effective than limescale "remover" - haha!) and attacked it with malt vinegar and a tough scouring pad!! Sheepdip Diary Entry
I was still scouring the sky for a large, gliding shape when we arrived at the shores of Lake Chungara and the refuge - our sanctuary for the night.
So saying he gave the little galopin his donative, and a slight rap on the pate at the same time, which sent him scouring from his presence. Saint Ronan's Well
Its energy companies are scouring the globe for opportunities, but the most obvious solution remains out of reach. Times, Sunday Times
As a '49er, Christman said, he was surrounded "by the offscourings and scum of society" and by "more gamblers, more drunkards, more ugly, bad women, and larger lumps of gold" than "any other place of similar dimensions within Uncle Sam's dominions. Five Best: Susan J. Matt
Another employee was also left gutted by the bombshell news and is now scouring the job market.
Due to the disturbed flow at bridge pier, the original condition of flow and bed scouring and sedimentation was changed, and thus the navigation condition was affected.
No doubt Eliza spent hours scouring the beds and walkways for native plants to incorporate in her bird drawings.
Then there are winter days when the east wind blows, scouring the sky of clouds and freezing the dunes hard as marble.
Detectives are scouring court lists as they try to trace the arsonists responsible for a devastating attack on York Crown Court.
The wealthy, physically buff, and orphaned British aristocrat lives for high adventure, scouring the globe for lost tombs and forgotten treasures.
The low number of benthic macrofauna species in the arctic intertidal zone is usually attributed to ice scouring Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
After the wool has been through these scouring liquors it is thrown on a scray to drain, and is next placed in cisterns which have perforated false bottoms. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
The days spent scouring the seas for whales to save are long and dreary. Times, Sunday Times
After scouring data, they discovered the large polyhalite deposit. Times, Sunday Times
He began scouring the country for venues that met his ambitions, making many hotel owners rich when he snapped up their assets. Times, Sunday Times
The find sparked a manhunt with 15 police officers, dog teams and the force helicopter scouring the area.
Remove marks with a plastic scouring pad and a mildly abrasive cleaner.
Japanese companies are scouring the world for alternative sources. Times, Sunday Times
The high winds that accompany the onrush of water also have scouring effect on the land.
Two guards either side of the castle doors stood to attention, their eyes scouring the Teger men fiercely.
I dawdled by the carriages as the crowds loped sleepily off the train and homewards, frantically scouring the scene for Max.
I glanced seawards to see dark shapes cruising in from the limit of visibility - four 2m long amberjack were scouring the area, foraging for their next meal.
Federal investigators are scouring records to chart the life of the animal and others in its birth herd for evidence that they may have consumed contaminated feed.
He had used the old seaman's trick of scattering the floorboards with salt and then sluicing them with boiling water and then scouring them with the hard bristled brush.
Even longer were the hours spent with a torch, scouring the interior of the dark continent with all the fervour of a Christian missionary seeking out the Godless.
In Leuven, Belgium, scientists are scouring the world for banana samples and cryo-preserving their shoots in liquid nitrogen before they become extinct.
Charbroil, but instead uses a nested scrubber, which is very much like a scouring pad or a WhiteTrashBBQ
But behind the trays of iced fairy cakes and lovingly labelled tombola items, prospective parents are scouring the stalls for clues of the school's strengths and weaknesses. BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition

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