Sentence examples similar to scour for it from inspiring English sources

"If blight seizes the ground-nut crop it is witchcraft; if the bush is vainly scoured for game it is witchcraft," wrote the anthropologist in his classic Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande.

It not only enabled American troops to scour it for intelligence and weapons caches, but it also gave the commandos a way to rush more troops in and casualties out in case the raid at Mullah Omar's compound ran into trouble.

The internet has already been scouring for its 2019 golden boy.

I would hide the last piece in my fist, and my grandmother would scour the floor for it.

And so, in an unspoken pact, the excavators will dig, and if anything looks out of place, they will take the load and spread it to the side so that the firefighters may scour it for bodies.

Now relatives scour it for traces of loved ones.

All Friday, investigators could be seen arriving at the park — even after dark — to scour it for evidence and leads, according to local TV news reports.

Like most security software, Kaspersky Lab's products require access to everything stored on a computer in order to scour it for viruses or other dangers.

I have to go!" She planned to visit the Web site when she got home to scour it for job leads.

She was buying the Stage each week to scour it for that elusive big break that might eventually allow her to sing other people's songs on kids' TV.

2. Anything with the temerity to be called a dictionary of journalism will always provoke journalists to scour it for omissions, errors or slights to prove that the author knows nothing about anything.