rummage in English

noun
1
an unsystematic and untidy search through a mass or receptacle.
Set in a depressing flat on a south London estate, teenager Luke rummages down the back of a grubby sofa in a fruitless search for something.
verb
1
search unsystematically and untidily through a mass or receptacle.
he rummaged in his pocket for a handkerchief
synonyms:search (through)hunt throughroot about/around (in)ferret about/around (in)fish about/around (in)poke around (in)dig throughdelve throughgo throughexploresift throughrifle (through)
verb
    search (through)hunt throughroot about/around (in)ferret about/around (in)fish about/around (in)poke around (in)dig throughdelve throughgo throughexploresift throughrifle (through)

Use "rummage" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "rummage" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "rummage", or refer to the context using the word "rummage" in the English Dictionary.

1. Finances are aided by rummage sales.

2. Jo: To have a rummage. And drawer.

3. I had a rummage in drawers.

4. Larry had to rummage through several cartons.

5. Marianne went to rummage in the refrigerator.

6. Or(Sentencedict.com), is it a rumpus room strewn of rummage?

7. Of course, our rummage crews were working on more or less virgin territory, where no customs rummage crew had been before.

8. He had a good rummage inside the sofa.

9. I had a good rummage in the library through the files.

10. Every week, the Filt rummage through glass recycling bins to find containers.

11. A rummage in the scrap box revealed an odd plastic corner plate.

12. Then began the long, painstaking job of deep rummage.

13. A brief rummage will provide several pairs of gloves.

14. Around Town checks out Upscale Rummage and Furniture Warehouse Around

15. I had a rummage around/about , but I couldn't find my certificate anywhere.

16. I'll have a good rummage around and see what I can find.

17. Have a rummage in my jewellery box and see if you can find something you like.

18. Lots of hairdressers now have accessory counters so why not have a rummage?

19. Mullins began to rummage among the chaotic mess of papers on his desk.

20. She gave a good rummage around her basement but couldn't find her radio anywhere.

21. Then he let her rummage through his desk drawers, rearranging them however she liked.

22. Have a rummage around in the drawer and see if you can find a pen.

23. In those days units, or mobile rummage crews, setting up schemes between us as a result of local smuggling information.

24. And do be careful if you decide to open up the box yourself to have a rummage around.

25. I was in charge of the rummage crew, and feeling that I had done my bit went to find the others.

26. Perhaps it's instinctual to rummage through that pile of Red Delicious apples at the market looking for those few, unbruised perfect specimens. But beauty is only peel deep.

27. It does not hinder rapid propagation of all species Larvae of the flies and — to a lesser extent — of the amphipodes rummage in their substratum and disperse a big piece of old crude oil into fine parts throughout the petri dish.