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Meanings of rummage (rummages) in English

A thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)

Synonyms
Examples for "ransacking"
Examples for "ransacking"
1
If a burglar was ransacking Bedelia Morse's house, that was his business.
Mine
2
War Paint and her companions were ransacking the rest of the house.
The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution
3
The ransacking of the house and barn and outbuildings was swiftly accomplished.
Tuck
4
She felt hardly equal to the task of ransacking desks and drawers.
The Apartment Next Door
5
There is no question of torture or soldiers ransacking the house.
The eyes of a king
Usage of rummages in English
1
The American Dame rummages in her purse, pretending to look for pesos.
Cleaving
2
She rummages through a cabinet and comes out with a Yankee Candle.
Lone Wolf
3
The exasperated Clerk reaches around, rummages, slaps a ruler on the desk.
Chinatown
4
He rummages in his bag and comes out with a hypodermic needle.
Black house
5
Victoria rummages through her bag and finds her brolly and her medicines.
The Guardian
6
She rummages around in her stinky bag, comes up with a sandwich.
Sympathy for the devil
7
We walk over to Penniman's Creek, where the water rummages with the pebbles.
Making toast
8
She rummages through a drawer, looking for it in a heap of keys.
Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
9
Sasha leaps up again and rummages among the papers near me.
Love and Other Stories
10
Nauls, about to prepare dinner, scowls as he rummages through his many cabinets.
The thing
11
Very important. She rummages in her purse for a notepad and a pen.
Mr. Mercedes
12
He rummages in his bags and plucks out a maroon booklet.
The Guardian
13
You know the score. He turns and rummages in his crate.
WATER FOR ELEPHANT
14
Doaks rummages around in his pocket and pulls out his ticket.
Saving max
15
She picks up her purse from the sill behind the couch and rummages.
Miller's crossing
16
Then leaps out of bed, rummages around, tosses on his trousers.
Chinatown
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