Example Sentences

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But now, based on conversations with neighbors who saw similar episodes, she thinks the boy may have been rummaging for food.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2018

They're not going to venture far from their base, which is that inn and post-office, where they have been rummaging my mail.

From The Port of Missing Men by Nicholson, Meredith

"Liza, you don't know why they have been rummaging in my room?" the governess asked her.

From The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

A movement upstairs disturbed him, and Henchard came down from his bedroom, where he seemed to have been rummaging boxes.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

The bears must have been rummaging finely here while we slept.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Nansen, Fridtjof