finicking
Example Sentences
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“Yes. I have papers — my Vehicle Importation Permit, my insurance, my license,” I said, and began fossicking in the plump folders in my briefcase.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2019
Coe enacts every rite of the format, fossicking through photos and talking to genealogists, digging up a couple of vaguely interesting ancestors.
From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2011
Big Jim ran away, came next day upon Fred Blakeley of Sydney who also was "fossicking" in the district.
From Time Magazine Archive
The watchers, then, did not mind my fossicking round their sacred place.
From Prester John by Buchan, John
We’ve spent the last four days fossicking around within a day’s ride of his turret-top mountain, and devil a valley of the kind he describes exists.”
From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Mitford, Bertram
