Example Sentences

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Mr. McEachern likened Stir/Shaken to putting security lights outside your house, only to find an intruder had ferreted out an alternative dark place.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2021

And note the reference to the “barely legible, scribbled note,” as if he had ferreted out a detail that only the most diligent of researchers would have found.

From Slate • Oct. 19, 2012

When I spoke with Foster about the text of "Coming to Understanding," he told me of one intriguing clue that he had ferreted out.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2012

Just what is brewing in the Chamber and Senate pot could not be known with certainty, last week, but Correspondent Arno Dosch-Fleurot of the New York World thought that he had ferreted out truth.

From Time Magazine Archive

We were supposed to go out to a film together, but he locked himself in our bathroom upstairs and refused to come out for nearly an hour, until my grandmother had ferreted him out.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee