Your English writing platform
Discover Ludwig"root around in" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to search or rummage through something in a disorderly manner. Example: The children rooted around in the toy box, looking for their favorite stuffed animals.
Exact(42)
"Those sows can't even turn around and they have no bedding, nothing to root around in," he said.
Domestication was easy, given that they loved to root around in dump sites.
You just root around in your bag and shout, "I'm coming!" when it rings?
When you root around in the history books, you realize there's little consensus about anything.
I had a good root around in the rubbish to recover any serviceable books, stationery, and so on.
But the idea that external researchers could come and root around in their archive was long considered taboo.
Similar(18)
The boy rooting around in the garden.
Instead, Linda was rooting around in her handbag for something.
He rooted around in the living-room closet.
…but as for the workshop, I thoroughly enjoyed rooting around in the day's discoveries.
In the middle, they rooted around in two pieces by Thelonious Monk.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com