rummage out

British  

verb

1. (tr) to find by searching vigorously; turn out

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Example Sentences

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.

It took some time to rummage out the muff, for Nursey had tucked it far back on the shelf behind other things.

From Nine Little Goslings by Coolidge, Susan

“I must have been dreaming,” he said to himself, as he went upstairs to rummage out the towels aforesaid, and anything else that his new-found guest would be likely to need.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram

Then I company, with full cartridge belts, took up the advance-guard work along the road, and we saw them rummage out of a barn some cavalrymen who had hidden there.

From At Plattsburg by French, Allen

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