scouring

Example Sentences

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Grieving often prompts frantic spelunking missions—rereading old letters or texts, scouring your camera roll and random social media accounts for any scrap of a memory of your loved one.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026

Fans have taken to scouring “Summer House” episodes for clues about when the pair started seeing each other.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

But we know what narrator Ramin Karimloo means: The last significant pharaoh continues to occupy the dreams of Egyptologists scouring the dust for traces of his history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

For Sri Lanka and India, wary of a US response, the dilemma of what to do with the ships and crew has sent legal officials scouring conventions and the laws of the sea.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

So she spread the back pages from both newspapers on the floor and started scouring them.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye