RUMMAGING

Traducere în limba română

rummaging substantiv

căutare, cercetare, scotocire.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

"Hairpins," she replied, passing on and rummaging in a clothes-bag on the bunk.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of the old daily papers with which one of our lumber-rooms was packed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The seamen at their landing observed my canoe, and rummaging it all over, easily conjectured that the owner could not be far off.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

I suppose that's what you are rummaging after among my things.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

One evening, while, with her usual child-like activity, and thoughtless yet not offensive inquisitiveness, she was rummaging the cupboard and the table-drawer of my little kitchen, she discovered first two French books, a volume of Schiller, a German grammar and dictionary, and then my drawing-materials and some sketches, including a pencil-head of a pretty little cherub-like girl, one of my scholars, and sundry views from nature, taken in the Vale of Morton and on the surrounding moors.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

To begin at the beginning, Mrs. Kirke called to me one day as I passed Mr. Bhaer's room where she was rummaging.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

It seems they had come in the carriage with their reverend relative, and had been conducting a rummaging scrutiny of the room upstairs, while he transacted business with the housekeeper, questioned the laundress, and lectured the superintendent.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Beth began by rummaging everything out of the big closet where her family resided, but getting tired before half done, she left her establishment topsy-turvy and went to her music, rejoicing that she had no dishes to wash.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

She never alluded to a certain person, but she thought of him a good deal, dreamed dreams more than ever, and once Jo, rummaging her sister's desk for stamps, found a bit of paper scribbled over with the words, 'Mrs. John Brooke', whereat she groaned tragically and cast it into the fire, feeling that Laurie's prank had hastened the evil day for her.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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