RUMMAGE in a Sentence

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37 example sentences for RUMMAGE, such as:

1. He had a good rummage inside the sofa.
2. Looks like someone's been rummaging around in my desk.
3. The old lady began to rummage in her pocket for her spectacles.
4. He rummaged in the one or the other, according to circumstances.
5. The customs official rummaged through the contents of his briefcase.

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 Meanings and Examples of RUMMAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rummage
 v.  make an energetic, usually hasty search
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Jo liked this, and after an energetic rummage from garret to cellar, subsided on the sofa to nurse her cold with arsenicum and books.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
2  After a grand rummage three of the missing articles were found, one over the bird cage, one covered with ink, and a third burned brown, having been used as a holder.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
3  "Excellently well, we will haf it," answered the Professor, smiling to himself as he paid for it, while Jo continued to rummage the counters like a confirmed bargain-hunter.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
4  At recreation hours it suffices to have a ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to hunt and rummage for it all about here.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
5  Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABU...
6  The old lady began to rummage in her pocket for her spectacles.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  The following day they rummaged among the ruins and found provisions, with which they repaired their exhausted strength.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In V
8  She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out the little glass which the doctor of the infirmary used to see whether a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA...
9  Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and shallots.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE...
10  He rummaged in the one or the other, according to circumstances.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
11  She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the toilet articles which stood on the commode, she handled Marius' clothes, she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY
12  Two remained with the men in black, who rummaged every place and took all the papers.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
13  He rummaged in the drawer for a sheet of paper, found one, and began to write.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
14  He rummaged in the roll-top desk on which Nat Hicks kept bills, buttons, calendars, buckles, thread-channeled wax, shotgun shells, samples of brocade for "fancy vests," fishing-reels, pornographic post-cards, shreds of buckram lining.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  What other marvels might have been rummaged out of this monstrous cabinet there is no telling.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
Example Sentence:
1  When we rummage through the trunks in the attic, we find many souvenirs of our childhood days.
2  He had a good rummage inside the sofa.
3  The customs official rummaged through the contents of his briefcase.
4  Looks like someone's been rummaging around in my desk.