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Example sentences for "fossicking"

Lexicographically close words:
fossae; fosse; fossero; fosses; fossicker; fossil; fossile; fossiles; fossiliferous; fossilisation
  1. Fossicking about, one kept on the alert for the feel of woodwork.

  2. Fossicking round in the gravel, Correll happened on some tiny insect-like mites living amongst the moss or on the moist under side of slabs of stone.

  3. I realized now why he and Sandy had been fossicking in my wardrobe.

  4. If we're to find the Kaaba-i-hurriyeh it is no good fossicking among the Committee or in the Turkish provinces.

  5. You don't want to be fossicking around somebody's stables and find a horse-boy entertaining his friends.

  6. They had had faith in the creek for years without seeing more than specks of gold--faith so great that they would all have scorned to leave their shafts and drives for the sake of fossicking neighbouring streams and gullies.

  7. Many remained in the township of Buninyong, not venturing to camp on the hills, because the ground there was so muddy and the gully so slushy as to render living under canvas extremely miserable, and fossicking for gold almost impossible.

  8. A little diligent fossicking there was rewarded by the unearthing of a few rich specimens of grain gold, or what appeared to be such.

  9. I only found one, though; and after a lot of fossicking round I began to think of going further down, when a most infernal row overhead altered my mind.

  10. We've spent the last four days fossicking around within a day's ride of his turret-top mountain, and devil a valley of the kind he describes exists.

  11. Got, he said, fossicking down the creek where nobody had ever won anything but fine gold before.

  12. Instead of having to take to fossicking like so many `hatters' --solitary miners.

  13. Half the time was spent in fossicking for sticks.

  14. They'll find it not quite so `welly good' As their fossicking freak at the Buckland.

  15. Or fossicking (picking out the nuggets from the interstices of the slate formation) with knives and trowels.

  16. Anyhow, since you have been gone, we have been fossicking about, and there is no doubt about the gold; it is the richest place any of us have ever seed.

  17. Peters was fossicking away at his shaft sinking, rather as if nothing had happened, yet all the while he was thinking out the situation from every side.

  18. It was while fossicking in this that the keen eye of the professional prospector was at once attracted.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fossicking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.