rummage
verb (used with object)
to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
are rummaging
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present progressiveof rummage.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Dozens of other councils around the country are rummaging through the attic for assets to sell off, often in the teeth of local opposition.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2024
For example, when you are rummaging in the refrigerator and the motor comes on, the refrigerator light dims momentarily.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
As Nancy Gibbs writes, small towns are rummaging back into their history to reassert their unique identity and attract tourists.
From Time Magazine Archive
There the worst thing that it can do is to fall over against your shins when you are rummaging around for the furnace-bath-brush among the rest of the truck that hangs on the wall.
From Of All Things by Robert C. Benchley
They say that somebody came and told Thiers, 'Do you know the people are rummaging the archbishop's palace?' and he shrugged his shoulders and said, 'Let 'em work.'
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
