Sentence examples for scouring from inspiring English sources

'scouring' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a verb that means to clean something by rubbing hard. For example: "I spent all morning scouring the kitchen floor."

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scouring

verb

Present participle of scour

  • Scouring the entire area revealed nothing.

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Our gallery is not a comprehensive picture of climate action, there's no panel of august judges or an algorithm scouring the internet.

Souness spotted Jones while scouring a different player at a Crewe Alexandra match in the Fourth Division in 1991.

"I remember scouring the listings section of the NME and being so frustrated that we were always missed out," she said.

The painter, who lives in Havana, has remained largely unknown to international art circles, despite gallerists, curators, and collectors scouring the island, hungry to "discover" Cuban artists.

Suan scuffs the ground and scowls, scouring the site for her next target.

After the harriers' tags stopped transmitting, Jones and another RSPB investigations officer had spent a week quietly scouring the moorland where the two birds disappeared, using handheld scanners.

Record collecting had been a subculture, too, and, for that vanishing breed, finding albums proved to be an exhilarating challenge, one that involved scouring garage sales, sifting through bargain bins.

The idea of self-education formed while scouring the internet.

Manchester United would not be scouring Europe for fresh talent quite so frantically this month had Sir Alex Ferguson kept hold of this inspirational midfielder, who left Old Trafford as a teenager in 2012 after growing impatient for first-team football.

Italian tourists in their uniform of brown quilted jackets, Americans expecting Hugh Grant, but getting a surly fast-food server who throws an overpriced pasty at them, and desperate souls scouring for cigarette butts.

Institutions elsewhere are scouring the globe for wealthy alumni.

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