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

"Here it's all laid out. They can have a look at it, they can have a rummage."

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 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

It even invited you to come back later and rummage through what you’d learned.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

She rummages in her purse and draws out a sheaf of bills, rolls them up and offers them to the men.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

“It is more wild than I expected,” he said as his partner rummaged for coins in her purse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

His tools sprawled across the table and onto the floor, as though rummaged through by a band of wood rats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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

I went straight into the house, rummaged through my things, found an old mitten, and went back out and tied it to the pump handle.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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

In the garage, he begins rummaging through the shelves, looking for something that might pass as a blanket.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 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

She was rummaging around in an abandoned police car—maybe looking for the emergency radio—and her bade was turned.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan