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

"Hallo!" exclaimed the youth with the yellow hair, who was ferreting about, "here are two swell boats!"

From Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Maupassant, Guy de

Rouletabille, who was ferreting in the chimney, put his fingers into one of the crucibles.

From Mystery of the Yellow Room by Leroux, Gaston

And they ferreted round for what she was ferreting round for in the Hague.

From Small Souls by Couperus, Louis