Sentence examples for I was rooting around from inspiring English sources

I was rooting around and I saw his passport".

About four years ago, when I was rooting around for Chinese music videos, I was sent a charming animation from a band called Shanren.

My dad clearly had the same thoughts, because while I was rooting around the drawers in his office once (as you do when you're 14), I stumbled across a page ripped out of Loaded, sporting some drop-dead babe dressed up like Lara Croft, only with her boobs out and her finger in her mouth.

Instead, Linda was rooting around in her handbag for something.

Then, late last week, top officials at the Justice Department held a press conference to announce that they were filing criminal charges against a group of seven veteran Iranian hackers, including one who was rooting around in the dam's operating system.

CBS was rooting around, trying to dig up some overlooked suspects in the murder of JonBenét, so Bob invited CBS to come over and check out his shrine.

Jummy told us how he was rooting around in the basement one day and found a garbage bag filled with bud that was pretty much still on the plant.

Another time, when he needed to transfer fungal cells from a plate to a solution in a flask, Chris was rooting around in the container of loops, looking for one in particular.

And I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm rooting around here trying to find it just so I can see it".

When I met him, flop-eared goats and quarrelsome geese were rooting around on the floor, and the yard was strewn with pieces of dried rawhide that would be turned into chew toys for dogs.

One moment she was locking us out of our own house and the next we were rooting around in the snow, looking for her left shoe.