Sentence examples for ferret about from inspiring English sources

And if you have chickens, let them ferret about in the freshly ploughed (plowed) area for nutrients that end up in your eggs!

You, alongside perhaps a few of your most reliably sharp-witted friends, must ferret about in a spirit of mild exasperation, looking for clues.

For many years, I canvassed any contact I could ferret about securing visitation, but all for naught.

This will make it very easy to pick up the pins when they hide in the corners of a storage basket or box, and you won't prick your fingers ferreting about for them.

He ferrets about in the lower reaches of politics to find disturbing symptoms of what should not be happening.

Maston had made that clear: 'Anyway, my dear fellow, as like as not you're blown after all the ferreting about in the war.

And then there is all the flounce of 'faine daining' that you know drives me nuts: the adolescent waiter ferreting about in your lap with a napkin, the topping up of glasses, the scraping of nonexistent crumbs from the tablecloth.

There will always be some grossly entitled, permatanned buffoons who feel more important because a teenager has ferreted about in their lap to put a napkin there, or because a glossy Frenchman has topped up their wine every time they took a sip.

Ferreting about for antecedents in parish records says, effectively: 'I attach a certain value to having always come from Suffolk or wherever.

So you can see him, can't you, ferreting about in the garden of his splendid country home – the moonlight blue and white on the grass below him, head torch strapped above his spikey unmoving haircut (no other person on earth has Noel Edmonds' haircut: further proof that he is our one true element of disorder), tablespoon in his hand, digging through the soil.

Talk story about ferrets and about attending the First Annual NYC Ferret Fest, in Central Park.