rummage

It happened place by place, inch by inch, a dusty disco ball left in the rummage while a Starbucks or a boutique gym rose to serve the freshly gentrified block around it.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

General warrants and writs of assistance enraged the colonies precisely because they allowed British officials to rummage through homes and businesses without individualized suspicion.

From Slate ● May 20, 2026

We also watched a nurse rummage through a medical waste disposal box without sterile gloves.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

The Dominican nuns who run the kitchen prepare food for about 80 elderly or destitute people -- growing numbers of Cubans are forced to rummage through garbage bins for food -- each day.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

When Declaration spent the night, Aunt Florentine gave us egg-white facials, shared all her beauty tips, and let us rummage through her jewelry box.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Deiri Fayyad rummages through dustbins in the Lebanese capital Beirut in search of plastics and other discarded materials to be recycled.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2023

Before he does that, the attacker can be seen peering into the dark house, walking away and then returning with bags, which he rummages around in for more than two minutes.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

He rummages through his stash of salvaged parts in the garden shed and locates a pair of replacements.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

He rummages through all the things only to almost stick with the exact outfit he arrived wearing, but calls up a dark denim jacket for the needed layer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

Cordelia rummages in the fridge and brings out an opened package of store doughnuts.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

The sisters got creative and rummaged in thrift shops, looking for discarded treasure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

After taking a job at the Conference Board, a business research organization, he rummaged through libraries to unearth measures of railcar freight loading and trends in short staple cotton prices since the Civil War.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

She rummaged around for a second and suggested a triangle with an exclamation point in it, which would signal a bit of excitement but clear danger too.

From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025

It has previously emerged that the weapon had been discovered by a man who often rummaged through the grocery store’s refuse to gather recyclable items.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024

The young mouse rushed headlong back to the nest, rummaged in the haversack and found a stout climbing rope.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

At the warehouse in Bangkok's Nonthaburi suburb, the sound of people rummaging through products and plastic crates clattering against shopping carts echoes through the building.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Chatrie asks whether the Constitution still remembers that lesson once the rummaging happens through data instead of drawers.

From Slate ● May 20, 2026

A new study found the masked mammals known for rummaging rubbish bins for easy food, are evolving and getting comfortable around humans.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

President Trump’s order halting production of new pennies has businesses across the country rummaging in their corporate couches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

Roy Lee was rummaging through the cupboard in the kitchen when my mother found him.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam