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.
have rummaged
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present perfectof rummage.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The hogs have rummaged through garbage, waddled through traffic jams and bothered schoolchildren.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
In the last few years, artists have rummaged around in that trunk more frequently than usual.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 19, 2010
In a production that is stilted, mannered and ludicrously stylized, Director John Barton appears to have rummaged through Peter Brook's wastebasket for directorial inspiration while scanting Shakespeare's genius.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the years since his death, collectors have rummaged through attics, farmhouses, junk shops, looking for work of other self-taught geniuses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since I left him, I have rummaged around and found a full report of the race.
From Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. by Mark Twain
