rummage

Jouppi swore he had no idea; bush pilots do not rummage through their passengers’ bags.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 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

Some sections developed their own microclimates due to the flow of air conditioning, forcing delegates to rummage around for jackets to keep warm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

The passage of great TV characters bequeaths to their survivors, including the audience, a rummage of questions that end up shaping their journey.

From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2025

“The Mothers’ Club at school did a rummage sale every year, and there was always the question of what the money would go to,” Gates remembers.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

She rummages in the bags, unwraps the fresh bread from the shopkeeper’s wife, and breaks it apart.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

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

She later discovered he had also entered her child's room and rummaged through drawers.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2025

Sitting in his spartan room in Astana, Kazakhstan, Yevgeny rummaged through a cardboard box that holds the things he thought to save.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

Then we rummaged through counter drawers until we found some kitchen twine and a pair of scissors.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

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

For the next few decades, my counterparts and I looked for answers to our questions by rummaging the internet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

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

She squatted down on the kitchen floor, opened up a cabinet, and began rummaging.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin