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Discover LudwigThe word "rummaging" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when talking about looking through something as if in search of something, typically by rummaging through it thoroughly, such as a pile of clothing, a cupboard, or a box. Example sentence: I spent the afternoon rummaging through my closet, looking for an old pair of socks.
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rummaging
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The act of one who rummages.
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Rummaging through the case, she eventually produced a beautiful picture of herself, aged about five, beaming out of the middle of a flowering rhododendron, and said, "I want you to have this".
Underwear, small or soft items go in last so I'm not rummaging to find them if I haven't had time to completely unpack.
I am rummaging in my handbag for the door keys.
I realise that if this letter were from a woman, I'd be rummaging for my red-alert hat and urging you to run for the hills.
Rummaging around in the grimmest, darkest corners of this Turkish cab, I feel like Indiana Jones sticking his hand into some ancient cob-webbed hole with tarantulas.
Interviewed by Bernard Levin in 1972 at the peak of her fame, she sewed busily throughout, rummaging for thread as he tried to get intellectual about it all.The Voice, as far as she knew, was a gift of God or nature.
America's plans look worryingly like an energy-policy grab-bag in which the president has been rummaging, rather than an efficient carbon-cutting plan.Environmental policies are no different from any others: you want the biggest bang for your buck.
Checks in the post Mr Neutron Rummaging through the internet Changing gears From blueprint to database The coming wave Tapping the oceans Telemedicine comes home Open sesame The free-knowledge fundamentalist ReprintsAn immediate advantage of this approach is that the software can identify any mistakes within a design.
Most of Russia's other tycoons have cupboards full of financial and other skeletons, should the authorities start rummaging.
It also ensures that 100m Brazilian internet users enjoy online privacy (by barring providers from rummaging through their data) and freedom of expression (a court order is required to force the removal of contentious content).In this section Life after the commodity boom Legalism v democracy The net closes Going overboard ReprintsPerfect it isn't, however.
Though a small rump of the population will never set foot inside a store, many people do, drawn to the low prices and the warm feeling of supporting a charitable endeavour.Nonetheless, as Macklemore laments in "Thrift Shop", it can take a lot of rummaging through tat to find something of value in charity shops.
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