ferret
noun
a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
was ferreting
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past progressiveof ferret.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Buckbeak was ferreting around on the rocky floor, looking for bones he might have overlooked.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
She was always saying she was—“I understand why you’re saying that, Willy”—but secretly she was ferreting out my neuroses.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
And they ferreted round for what she was ferreting round for in the Hague.
From Small Souls by Louis Couperus
Some even went so far as to say that Feuerbach's sudden death the same year was owing to the indefatigable zeal with which he was ferreting out the mystery.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 by Various
Rouletabille, who was ferreting in the chimney, put his fingers into one of the crucibles.
From Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
