fossilized

Example Sentences

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Against a backdrop thick with rolling hills and indifferent sheep, the trio have fossicked, scrubbed, sown and ploughed.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2011

The swag had been prospected and fossicked for a clue, but yielded none.

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

Moonlight ignored the question, but turning to the Prospector, he said, “I shouldn’t have left till I’d fossicked that gorge, if I’d been you.”

From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)

They, too, fossicked and re-washed, using extravagant quantities of water.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel

He brought over from the meat dive a generously big and tender steak and fossicked about in the pantry until he found the egg basket.

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank