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

As she possessed no private papers their sanctity was never inculcated; and I could have rummaged, had I so desired, in every drawer or box in the house without fear of correction.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John