How to Use rummage in a Sentence

rummage

verb

• He rummaged in his pocket for the receipt.
• He rummaged through the attic for his baseball card collection.
• I heard you rummaging around in the refrigerator.
• The conifer was the one that led Dr. Dalling to rummage through the brush in the first place.
  — Douglas Main, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• Inside the store, the thieves piled food in their arms, rummaging through shelves and the front counter.
  — Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• One person can be seen on the footage rummaging through one of the cars.
  — La Cañada Valley Sun, 4 Sep. 2019
• Dikk has found many of these gems by rummaging through piles of thrift store books.
  — Kate Bennis, Good Housekeeping, 12 Dec. 2018
• The tag sale attracted a steady stream of bargain hunters who rummaged around the store.
  — Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 12 June 2018
• Someone had rummaged through a shelf behind the sales counter.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2023
• In the garage, Brittany and her husband rummaged through boxes of photos to mount around the house.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
• Now, there will be no need to rummage through several belts just to find one.
  — Diego Pineda, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• The man without the gun rummaged through the woman’s purse and stole $40, police reports say.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• Throughout the day, a steady stream of neighbors stopped by to rummage through the donations.
  — Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 10 Aug. 2021
• While the sweet potatoes cook, take a moment to rummage around your kitchen for something to serve with them.
  — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 15 Nov. 2019
• The victim locked himself in the bathroom while the gunman rummaged through the apartment.
  — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• One of the men got out of a back passenger seat, smashed the window of the second car and rummaged through the car for about three seconds.
  — Alejandro Serrano, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Garner made a run for it while Owens was rummaging through the victim’s clothes.
  — Benjamin Brown, Fox News, 22 June 2018
• Comfort, convenience and a hot mess pile of clothes to rummage through.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Think: No more rummaging through your belongings at the airport check-in or on the plane.
  — Lauren Fischer, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2023
• In the video, the squirrel can be seen rummaging through the store's candy bin as a an employee tries to chase it away.
  — Sun Sentinel Staff, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 June 2018
• In this idyllic life, Leavitt, 66, doesn’t have to rummage for stale Hot Cheetos in her pantry.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2022
• Inside a storage shed along the first-base line, Don Longtin rummages for a dark green hat to give to a boy whose dog has chewed through his first one.
  — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 10 July 2019
• If one of us fell and broke something, the other guy would know about it and could rush back to camp to rummage through the injured partner’s gear.
  — Lionel Atwell, Field & Stream, 26 Nov. 2020
• Fleas rummage their surroundings for a blood meal in the first week of their life as this keeps them from starvation.
  — Doggie Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
• Another man who had been waiting for a bus stopped to rummage through the debris.
  — Rachel Uranga, oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2022
• The site was unfenced back then, and grizzlies often came to rummage for leftovers.
  — National Geographic, 11 July 2019
• Belinda takes a bite of her burger, then rummages in the paper bag and pulls out a napkin and wipes her lips.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• The song progresses as the video shows more scenes of deputies rummaging through coat pockets in a closet, CDs stacked near a stereo.
  — Scott Hawkins, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• While some of the suspects rummaged through the home, one of the suspects that was holding the family in the bathroom smacked the father in the face with a gun, police said.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 27 Dec. 2019
• The post, which is at a California Trader Joe’s store, shows customers quickly rummaging through a pile of the mini totes.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024