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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
rummage . - noun obsolete Plural form of
rummage .
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Examples
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In need of a shave and with glasses resting on his bald head, Diaa Eddin rummages through his shop, a sparkly, rhinestoned, un-spooled thread kind of place with fading photographs of dancers, a computer misted in dust and, hanging above it all, an airbrushed picture of himself with a smirk that suggests he might whisper something intoxicating or perhaps slightly offensive into your ear.
LA Times Series on Life in Cairo, #1: Diaa Eddin the Bedlah Maker zhukora1 2007
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"There's no X-ray machines at Yankee Stadium when they come out of the locker room, so security will have their table set up, and there'll be a guy who rummages through Derek Jeter's bag, to make sure he doesn't have any guns or bombs or whatever," Wernecke said.
When the Yankees Skipped Security Daniel Barbarisi 2011
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He then rummages through the bullet-riddled dead, looking for a body intact enough to be raised through magic.
12 « June « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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He then rummages through the bullet-riddled dead, looking for a body intact enough to be raised through magic.
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The chimera reaches into the bag at her feet, and rummages around, pulling out a small ampoule filled with yellow smoke.
Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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The author rummages through a box that is full of the past and pulls out the same story.
A Story stephen hastings-king 2011
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He removes his pack and rummages through it until he finds a waterproof plastic card.
Remotary Publics Bring Stamps, Seals to Those in Distress Con Chapman 2011
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A Ukrainian family sits down to an early dinner while a British teenager rummages in the refrigerator for a snack as the smell of Caribbean chicken curry wafts overhead.
Children's Inn at NIH offers youths with rare diseases hope, and a place to bond 2011
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She rummages in her handbag and pulls out an old airline ticket.
A new film presents a revealing portrait of the comedian Joan Rivers Emine Saner 2010
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A Ukrainian family sits down to an early dinner while a British teenager rummages in the refrigerator for a snack as the smell of Caribbean chicken curry wafts overhead.
Children's Inn at NIH offers youths with rare diseases hope, and a place to bond 2011
smcquoid commented on the word rummages
She looks quickly and noisily through the cabinet.
May 28, 2009