rummage out
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Get into these while I go and rummage out some supper.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
Come, Bibi, let us have supper, and I will try what I can rummage out that may be of use to monsieur.
From The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France by Engelbach, Alfred H.
For in it you shall appear, if I rummage out some of your old pleasant letters for rhymes.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
Come along and let's rummage out the lines, Reggie.
From The Adventure League by Skae, Hilda T.
At noon, when the stewards rummage out lunch-drinks from the dewy ice-chest, the Desert whines louder than the well-wheels on the bank: 'I am here, only a quarter of a mile away.
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard
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