Sentence examples for root around for from inspiring English sources

Next is his evidence -- it's all there, but the reader has to root around for it.

Better, with evangelistic hopes like McWhorter's, to root around for the language's exceptional qualities: "up" and all the rest.

I'll leave it to others to root around for any feminist messages in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.

Father Freeman, 63, agreed, saying that the New Melleray community had also had to root around for monastically appropriate ways to earn money.

I can't tell you the number of times I tried to plug a regular pair of earbuds into these phones before -- d'oh! -- remembering that doesn't work and then having to root around for the included Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter.

This one has a rain cover and will do you proud on long treks, plus there are loads of zips so you don't have to root around for valuables.

Stressed, Tannenbaum rooted around for granola bars.

Maybe he is the liminal figure theory-heads are always rooting around for.

The same with his habit of doing countdowns when rooting around for his wallet or his keys.

I don't keep a diary, but I realised when rooting around for a phone number the other day that I may have the next best thing – a pile of contacts books dating back a quarter of a century.

Robert led us around the kitchen, showed us the emergency phone line, rooted around for some matches, then rumbled off down the road.