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Example sentences for "rummage"

Lexicographically close words:
ruminated; ruminating; rumination; ruminations; ruminative; rummaged; rummaging; rummer; rummy; rumor
  1. Altogether serenely the Older Man began to rummage again through all his pockets.

  2. You told me," he grinned, "to rummage around until I discovered a Real Treasure?

  3. If you are really craving the interesting why don't you go out and rummage around for it?

  4. Amy, still sewing, said, without looking up: "One of you boys go rummage the store room for the corn popper.

  5. Kennedy thumbed through the delicate intimacies of her traveling bag with the keen, impersonal manner which always distinguished him; then he found her beaded handbag and proceeded to rummage through that.

  6. Ordinarily I would have enjoyed this, but now I had become a detective, and it was necessary to rummage about, and quickly.

  7. Indeed, the early bibliomaniacs usually flocked to these book marts to rummage over the stalls, and to collect their choice volumes.

  8. Then he began to rummage in his sack again, pushing the bacon well down so that the cloth might not be stained by it; after this he took off his leather belt and put it round the sack, with a loop to carry over one shoulder.

  9. But not knowing the plan of your boat, and being too formal to rummage around very much," he added dryly, "this cabin seemed somehow the surest place for a rather private conversation.

  10. Very softly he stepped to the table and began to rummage among the loose keys.

  11. With an irresistible impulse he began suddenly to rummage through the themes.

  12. Then I company, with full cartridge belts, took up the advance-guard work along the road, and we saw them rummage out of a barn some cavalrymen who had hidden there.

  13. And wherever we shoot them in any quantity, buzzards still flock together to rummage in the underbrush.

  14. Then one of the youngest was sent to "rummage the budget," which meant to reach into the box and take the paper that he happened to touch.

  15. They did my bidding and I saw somewhat appearing under the jar and said, "Rummage and look at what is under it.

  16. I told you to rummage the drawers, and that scarf is entirely too becoming to Chicken Little's bright eyes to be wasted in a drawer any longer.

  17. You two may rummage in the drawers of the cabinet.

  18. A swift rummage of the dusty closet set them all sneezing, but they triumphantly brought forth an armful of defunct trousers and carried them up to their room.

  19. At the first movement the stranger made to rummage again in the fire, Friar Ange anxiously covered the soup-tureen with a flap of his frock and shut his eyes.

  20. And the man in black still continued to rummage in the fire, shouting, "A Salamander!

  21. Get down, man; rummage your havresac, and let us see what you have there.

  22. Horse Shoe, get up from that chist, man; I can give you a little drop of liquor, if you will let me rummage there for it.

  23. On the street Marya said: "Now they'll begin to rummage about again and look for the murderer.

  24. Grown-up men in gray come in with sabers at their sides, with spurs on their feet, and rummage around, and dig up and search everything.

  25. By this time a general rummage had commenced in the boat for fire-arms; the captain hailed the driver on the towing path, who pulled up, and the boat was moored by the canal side.

  26. A general rummage for ammunition was therefore ordered, and a supply of this necessary having been obtained, the ship's carronade was after considerable delay put in order, and minute guns were fired.

  27. Thanks to the rummage sales, people get rid of a lot of stuff that's no further good to them; and other people get a great many things that they can use, and pay almost nothing for them.

  28. From the hour of its opening, the rummage sale was crowded.

  29. Nobody buys books at a rummage sale except the people who would buy them anyway.

  30. Somehow I never thought much of rummage sales," she owned.

  31. And in a rummage sale the expenses are so small that almost everything is profit.

  32. It was indirectly through Horace Hitchcock that the Friendly Terrace girls became interested in the Rummage Sale.

  33. Mrs. Vanderpool was in charge of a rummage sale to be held for the benefit of a local charity, and recognizing Priscilla's efficiency at a glance, she had promptly enlisted her under her banner.

  34. But as soon as I get up, won't I rummage the house out, that's all!

  35. Even the preliminary rummage delights them when their clothes are sent for pressing and their choice wavers among their plumage.

  36. After the first glad shock, it was our habit to rummage in the general midden outside our stockings.

  37. It was only on the brightest days that the child dared to rummage in this box.

  38. I think it will be to-morrow; for papa has a lazy fit coming on, and then he always plays with me and lets me rummage where I like, while he goes out or smokes in the garden.

  39. Suddenly with the promptness of a scene shifter waiting behind the stage, a lackey dressed in a blue and gold uniform appeared, carrying a dark lantern and a hook to rummage about among the players' feet until he found the lost object.

  40. It's not a rummage sale, so we mustn't send rubbish," decreed Lorraine.

  41. We'll rummage round on Saturday afternoon, and get all the kinds we can, and plant them in that tin dish that's under the greenhouse shelf.

  42. It was only going to be sent to a rummage sale, so we may just as well have it.

  43. After the cowboy trunk episode, I didn't run into Craphound again until the annual Rotary Club charity rummage sale at the Upper Canada Brewing Company.

  44. Found a trunk of old cowboy things at a rummage sale.

  45. She jerked it open hurriedly on her knees and bent her head to rummage in the depths.

  46. It doesn't require a Christian life to sell oyster soup or run a bazaar or a rummage sale.

  47. This talk about the land of the free is discounted when the children look like a rummage sale in a second-hand store; with uncombed hair, ripped pants, buttons off, stockings hanging down.

  48. Utterly irrelevantly, Stanton brushed him aside, and began to rummage anxiously among the books on his table.

  49. Finally with a grin that could not be disguised even from the dog, Stanton began to rummage with eye and hand through the intricate back pages of the dictionary.

  50. The ducklings clap their beaks and rummage here, there, and everywhere; they sift each mouthful, throwing out the clear water and swallowing the good bits.

  51. Should the seekers rummage among the wild grasses in the willow-beds and thickets, I wish them the delight of finding the wonderful object that, at this moment, lies before my eyes.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rummage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beat; clutter; comb; derange; disarrange; disarray; discompose; disjoint; dislocate; disorder; disrupt; distemper; dragnet; exploration; forage; frisk; grub; hash; hunt; hunting; jumble; jungle; litter; mash; muddle; posse; probe; quest; rake; ransack; rifle; root; rummage; scour; scramble; search; searching; shake; shuffle; stalk; stalking; toss; tumble; unsettle; upset; waste