How to Use rummage in a Sentence

rummage

verb
Definition of rummagenext
Synonyms for rummagenext
  • He rummaged in his pocket for the receipt.
  • He rummaged through the attic for his baseball card collection.
  • I heard you rummaging around in the refrigerator.
  • The conifer was the one that led Dr. Dalling to rummage through the brush in the first place.
    — Douglas Main, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Inside the store, the thieves piled food in their arms, rummaging through shelves and the front counter.
    — Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • One person can be seen on the footage rummaging through one of the cars.
    — La Cañada Valley Sun, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Dikk has found many of these gems by rummaging through piles of thrift store books.
    — Kate Bennis, Good Housekeeping, 12 Dec. 2018
  • The tag sale attracted a steady stream of bargain hunters who rummaged around the store.
    — Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 12 June 2018
  • Someone had rummaged through a shelf behind the sales counter.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In the garage, Brittany and her husband rummaged through boxes of photos to mount around the house.
    — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Now, there will be no need to rummage through several belts just to find one.
    — Diego Pineda, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The man without the gun rummaged through the woman’s purse and stole $40, police reports say.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Throughout the day, a steady stream of neighbors stopped by to rummage through the donations.
    — Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 10 Aug. 2021
  • While the sweet potatoes cook, take a moment to rummage around your kitchen for something to serve with them.
    — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The victim locked himself in the bathroom while the gunman rummaged through the apartment.
    — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • One of the men got out of a back passenger seat, smashed the window of the second car and rummaged through the car for about three seconds.
    — Alejandro Serrano, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Garner made a run for it while Owens was rummaging through the victim’s clothes.
    — Benjamin Brown, Fox News, 22 June 2018
  • Comfort, convenience and a hot mess pile of clothes to rummage through.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Think: No more rummaging through your belongings at the airport check-in or on the plane.
    — Lauren Fischer, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In the video, the squirrel can be seen rummaging through the store's candy bin as a an employee tries to chase it away.
    — Sun Sentinel Staff, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 June 2018
  • In this idyllic life, Leavitt, 66, doesn’t have to rummage for stale Hot Cheetos in her pantry.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Inside a storage shed along the first-base line, Don Longtin rummages for a dark green hat to give to a boy whose dog has chewed through his first one.
    — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 10 July 2019
  • If one of us fell and broke something, the other guy would know about it and could rush back to camp to rummage through the injured partner’s gear.
    — Lionel Atwell, Field & Stream, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Fleas rummage their surroundings for a blood meal in the first week of their life as this keeps them from starvation.
    — Doggie Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Another man who had been waiting for a bus stopped to rummage through the debris.
    — Rachel Uranga, oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The site was unfenced back then, and grizzlies often came to rummage for leftovers.
    — National Geographic, 11 July 2019
  • Belinda takes a bite of her burger, then rummages in the paper bag and pulls out a napkin and wipes her lips.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • The song progresses as the video shows more scenes of deputies rummaging through coat pockets in a closet, CDs stacked near a stereo.
    — Scott Hawkins, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
  • While some of the suspects rummaged through the home, one of the suspects that was holding the family in the bathroom smacked the father in the face with a gun, police said.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Thomas rummaged through her bedroom closet and found the machine that her husband had used for about 20 months.
    — Margaret Fleming, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2023

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