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How to use rummaging in a sentence

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They don't mind, since without those leftovers they would either starve or be rummaging in garbage dumps for stale food scraps.
Quickly, I jump out of bed, rummaging through my drawers for something to wear.
As a young sprat, I was prone to rummaging through the bargain bins of various local record shops.
The three men started rummaging through the kitchen, stealing any valuables they could find.
He opened the refrigerator and stooped, rummaging through Tupperware containers with enthusiasm.
Furious now, his mother stormed across the room and yanked open his vanity drawer, rummaging around until she found a pair of shears.
The twins went into the kitchen, and Rebecca pulled open the drawer, rummaging about for the key.
I was bemused to hear two men in conversation while they were rummaging through shop bargains.
I spent most of the night rummaging through desk drawers and sifting through filing cabinets.
He stared at the door for a moment before letting out a sigh, rummaging his keys out from his pocket, and unlocking his own.
Short of slaughtering a wild animal and rummaging about in its entrails, every sign, portent and augury had been examined beforehand.
She is rummaging around my desk as if it were going to magically produce some corn dogs.
I was rummaging through my box full of stuff and found something that amused me.
She opened the medicine cabinet and began rummaging through the accumulation of pill bottles.
After rummaging through the medicine cabinet, she produced some prescribed medication.
I didn't know my way around very well, and was rummaging through the toolshed one morning looking for a shovel.
After rummaging through his drawer for several minutes he pulled out a pair of tight fitting jeans and long sleeved dark blue shirt.
Irish actor Gabriel Byrne has been snapped in Beverly Hills dressed as a down and out and rummaging through the trash.
Alaine nodded and began rummaging round in the small dark brown suede money pouch she wore on a loose thin strand of black cord around her waist.
A red-faced dad accidentally threw away his wife's family heirlooms and found them after hours rummaging through a rubbish dump!
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His zeal even reached the unwonted climax of rummaging in a godown for tin-lined cases and helping her to pack her offerings.
But when I sat up and looked about me the desire faded, and rummaging in my bag I came across my tin whistle.
And may I go rummaging round in the garrets and glory-holes to furnish it as I like?
In a moment he was on his feet, rummaging the stage for the missing music.
She was rummaging for the soap and for an answer to his first remark.
A number of pigs and fowl were rummaging about the kitchen at will.
Amaryllis thrust her hand deep into the Brundage pocket, rummaging.
There he handed out Ferry's document and went on rummaging for mine.
I turned my eyes all over the room, rummaging with them the closets, the chests of drawers, the tables.
She ignores the canonical hours and her Spiritual Father because she is too busy rummaging for food to feed the poor from her soup kitchen.
Joan was rummaging in the store-room, and Sheldon was taking his siesta in a hammock on the veranda.
We put in nearly a week rummaging through that moldy old barracks.
They dropped and died on the dust-heaps they had been rummaging for offal.
In the next instant he was rummaging in the medicine closet.
We never observed any ragpicker or other workers rummaging through medical waste using either gloves or the more common stick.
I went on rummaging among them, as well as a one-armed man could, finding this convenient thing and that, and putting them aside for to-morrow's launch.
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