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Rummaged in sentence

11 examples of Rummaged in a sentence

At a half hour I was thinking oh come on it has to be at least half over! but no I rummaged around till I found the case... IT'S OVER 2 HOURS LONG!
See!"And she went to the writing-table, ransacked all the drawers, rummaged the papers, and at last lost her head so completely that Charles earnestly begged her not to take so much trouble about those wretched receipts.
I rummaged the things up into much the same state that they must have been before the world was created, and when chaos reigned.
Among these he rummaged and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until we were past Reading.
He rummaged in his coat pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted paper, he laid it out upon the table.
He rummaged amid his newspapers, glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph:"Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery.
"Oh, no, your Excellency, he is not the devil," replied the host, with a grin of contempt; "for during his fainting we rummaged his valise and found nothing but a clean shirt and eleven crowns--which however, did not prevent his saying, as he was fainting, that if such a thing had happened in Paris, you should have cause to repent of it at a later period."
Two remained with the men in black, who rummaged every place and took all the papers.
He could not find it; he rummaged the pockets of his trousers, but, to his horror, he could nowhere discover the box.
But preparing the twelfth time to go on board, I found the wind began to rise: however, at low water I went on board, and though I thought I had rummaged the cabin so effectually that nothing more could be found, yet I discovered a locker with drawers in it, in one of which I found two or three razors, and one pair of large scissors, with some ten or a dozen of good knives and forks: in another I found about thirty-six pounds value in money—some European coin, some Brazil, some pieces of eight, some gold, and some silver.
They were cruel and graceful; they searched and rummaged maliciously in her poor and silly toilet of spangles and tinsel.