How to Use scour in a Sentence

scour

verb

• Gone are the days of scouring the mall for unique gifts.
  — Samantha Booth, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
• The rain that does fall should help scour out some of the haze and smoke from area fires.
  — oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2023
• These vessels are scouring the seafloor for sources of oil.
  — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 3 May 2024
• The things that pop into your head while scouring a pot!
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• Wearing his blue cap and a trench coat, Mr. Wrenn scoured the stacks of vintage art books.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Through the week, police had been scouring the city’s downtown with drones and search dogs.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• For a small amount of rust, just scour it with a scrubber and water like normal and rub with oil.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2023
• It’s got scrub brushes, a tile lines brush, a groove gap brushes, and a scouring pad brush.
  — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
• Every month, our editors scour Amazon in search of the best sale items to add to our carts.
  — Samantha Jones, goodhousekeeping.com, 5 May 2023
• So do the air traffic controllers who scour the skies and manage takeoffs and landings.
  — Emily Steel, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• The flavor was bright and clear, a sharp astringency scouring our palate for the meal to follow.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
• Researchers will need to scour oceans, deserts, and rain forests to collect samples before species die out.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
• Her team scoured the Internet for stories, and sent out word through friends and relatives.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2024
• All the while, Watt spent long hours scouring the internet for other victims.
  — WIRED, 17 Oct. 2023
• Rescuers scoured the park from April 3 to April 8 for Bretsch, using police dogs, ground search teams, a drone and horses but still couldn’t find her, Young said.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 19 Apr. 2024
• On Sunday morning, large piles of rubble were dotted around the area, with stray cats scouring them for food.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
• Our editors scour Amazon’s site in search of the top limited-time deals each month.
  — Samantha Jones, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2023
• While scouring the web for old house deals to post on Instagram, the Finkelsteins were also searching for their own dream house.
  — Chris Moody, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
• Gently scrub the rust away with a nylon brush, fine steel wool scrubbing pad, or metal scouring pad.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2023
• As news of the impact spread to the public, meteorite hunters began scouring Ribbeck, a village near Berlin, for fragments of the rock.
  — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• Women's Health editors scoured Nordstrom's site and compiled the best leggings deals to add to your cart right now.
  — Samantha Jones, Women's Health, 17 July 2023
• They were left to scour social media for any possible clue.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Law enforcement scoured the wooded area looking for clues.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
• Crewmembers now start every leg at sea by scouring the decks for anything that people might use to harm themselves.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 11 Dec. 2023
• On Sunday, people scoured dense thickets wedged between busy roads and a light rail train station.
  — Claire Rush, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
• Many of them make the daily trip to Dhaka on the shining new metro rail while scouring their smartphones for the latest on social media.
  — Julhas Alam and Al-Emrun Garjon, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2024
• This has allowed third parties, many of whom operate in China, to scour the web for trendy designs and then list them on Temu at a discount.
  — TIME, 16 Jan. 2024
• The 10-in-1 mop comes with a narrow detail brush head to scour grime out from grout lines and remove stains caused by hard water stains from shower corners, too.
  — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
• Scientific divers off the coast of Sicily were scouring the rocky sea floor when a large, rounded object stood out from the other stones.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
• Perhaps the most intuitive way to look for a biosignature in that barcode is to scour it for a gas that was clearly produced by life.
  — Elise Cutts, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024