Scouring in example sentence
There was a general shout in favour of the coach-house, and those who were nearest the door began to slip through, in the hope of scouring the best places.
More example sentences with word scouring
Unfortunately, I picture it made in Germany or Japan, but this amazing machine that's constantly scouring every bit of human endeavor and taking resources, money, labor, capital, machinery, away from the least productive parts and towards the more productive parts, and while this might cause temporary dislocation, what it does is it builds up the more productive areas and lets the less productive areas fade away and die, and as a result the whole system is so much more efficient, so much richer for everybody. 
