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 Siberiak, Mamin

I will rummage the first story: you, Fred, will explore the second, and our new friend here can try his luck in the third.

From City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston by Thompson, George

Disobeying orders, they will rummage and clean by fits and starts, regardless of the havoc they innocently make.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

"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 Barr, Robert

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 Eaton, Walter Prichard