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Meanings of rummage around in English

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Usage of rummage around in English
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When Nettle ducked behind the counter to rummage around, there were jeers.
Atonement
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I rummage around on my desk for the original paper Angleton gave me.
The Fuller Memorandum
3
Did Tara think I'd rummage around her house just to pry?
Dead as a doornail
4
I'll rummage around in my memory and see if I can place him.
Quill's Window
5
He sighed and got up to rummage around the cabin.
Cat and Mouse
6
Do rummage around and find it for me, won't you?
The Net
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This saves the students having to rummage around looking for coins to feed the machines.
The Irish Times
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We like to lean over people's gates, and rummage around in their flower beds and greenhouses.
The Irish Times
9
You rummage around in closets, Max, while I'm climbing up, and grabbing that same smoked pork.
Afloat on the Flood
10
The man behind the black mask swore, then nodded and began to rummage around underneath his robe.
The Name of the Wind
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Sovoy began to rummage around in a drawer, bringing out sympathy wax, twine, and a few pieces of metal.
The Name of the Wind
12
Since Kittie asks such a searching question and we're alone in the darkness I rummage around for an honest answer.
The great lover
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He heard the plastic fork rummage around again in the bowl, and then he heard her bite into something else.
The sherlockian
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A rummage around eBay will get you a second-hand version and a heap of games for maybe €50 tops.
Independent.ie
15
About three in the morning he heard French Pete crawl up for'ard and rummage around in the eyes of the boat.
The Cruise of the Dazzler
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Ask to rummage around the library-theone that had once dazzled guests simply because it happened to have books that were real?
The double bind
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