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

"Given the public interest, I would have expected to be informed rather than having to rummage through the council’s lengthy statement of accounts," she said.

From BBC ● May 22, 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

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

In fact, he’d helped his mother put her things in boxes for the church rummage sale.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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

An hour in, the setup is still going on as Rom rummages through old photographs, putting together connections the audience has never been privy to.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

At one point he rummages through his apron to pull out a tiny square of red fabric — a matador’s cloth in miniature — which he waves once, smiling, and then discards on the ground.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

Your browser rummages through with the server, looking for a way to convince you that the page is trustworthy for a purchase.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2022

Celia rummages through her nightstand drawer for her favorite photograph of her son.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

The state claimed he faked the move to dodge millions of dollars in taxes and allegedly rummaged through his trash for evidence of California residence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 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

Towards the end of the patrol he described how hungry crew members rummaged for tins of food in hidden compartments inside the submarine.

From BBC ● May 12, 2025

Sean and I shoved her rompers and sleep sacks into a backpack, rummaged through our clothes and grabbed enough underwear for an indeterminable amount of time away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

Both boys turned to her while May grabbed Jack’s grandfather’s bag and rummaged through it.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

At the time, resale brought to mind old, dusty clothes in the back of a closet and rummaging through thrift store racks just to put on someone else’s shoes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

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

The Framers feared officers rummaging through homes and papers because they understood something permanent about institutional power.

From Slate ● May 20, 2026

While rummaging through some old boxes in his grandparents' loft, a music-mad 15-year-old schoolboy discovered an old mixtape hidden amongst his late uncle's belongings.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025

I yell after rummaging through my closet the next morning.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan