Sentence examples for rooting around in from inspiring English sources

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

WILD pigs are rooting around in a field in the dark.

While rooting around in my dried fruit collection, I had noticed a bag of candied ginger.

Isn't rooting around in rubbish bins a somewhat extreme – and unpleasant – reaction?

"That is a made-up concept," she said, rooting around in the dirt for a dead rat.

I feel like I could probably have spent my whole life rooting around in there, discovering things".

"They'd laugh at me, 'So you've gone from cabs and sushi to rooting around in the garbage".

He started rooting around in Ashbery's papers and the more he rooted the more engrossed he grew.

Its executives effectively began rooting around in their corporate attic for nonessential business or other ways to raise cash.

I was recently rooting around in the crawl space under the house and came across two old letters that moved me greatly.

Whenever I unlock my car, a line from a Spencer Short poem resonates in my head: "each of us rooting around / in our tattered gunny sack of desire & neuroses".