rummage
verb (used with object)
to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
will rummage
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future tenseof rummage.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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I'll treat you to berries—I have a whole garden full—and we will rummage for some bread crusts, some oats, a bit of sugar and live mosquitoes.
From Verotchka's Tales by Mamin Siberiak
"To-morrow," cried the girl, "I shall robe myself in the oldest garments I possess, and will rummage those dusty archives until I find the letters of him who was Archbishop in 1250."
From The Sword Maker by Robert Barr
Servants will rummage through drawer after drawer of old, dull letters out of idle curiosity.
From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd
Some day little Nat will rummage them for forgotten books of his childhood, and come upon my derby, now in the latest fashion, to wonder that men ever wore such outlandish headgear.
From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Walter Prichard Eaton
If you do not gratify the searchers at St. Laurent with the same sum, they will rummage your trunks, and turn all your cloaths topsy turvy.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
