Sentence examples for scoured in from inspiring English sources

So hard disks and web pages are being scoured in order for the case to proceed.

There are no depths to be scoured in the presence of coconut drinks.

In Wyoming's Powder River basin the coal seams run 50 to 100 feet thick and lie so close to the surface they can be scoured in open-pit mines.

This can make for squeamish reading, as bodies are continually being "stretched and scoured" in the most vivid terms, but the result is a powerful argument that, when civil institutions, or the bodies of state, are compromised, so, too, is the integrity of the body.

After all the delay — and after Ms. Palin's past and personal life have since been scoured in depth by news outlets (and exposed through leaked e-mails, investigative reports and tell-all books) — the relevance of the e-mails and what they might reveal is unclear.

Address it to @TNYJohnCassidy and include this hash tag: #nicenewt Depending on the responses, I'll highlight some of them in a subsequent post, and maybe try and rope in some of my esteemed colleagues, such as Hendrik Hertzberg, whose pointed and erudite Comment about Newt in this week's magazine I scoured in vain for anything that could be categorized as "nice".

Large volumes of water were discharged from the canal every fortnight, when the Bridgwater Dock was scoured, in order to free it from silt, while the Railway Company was extracting water to supply the station and steam locomotive sheds at Taunton.

Ice sheets moving over relatively level surfaces have produced large numbers of small lake basins through scouring in many areas.