pawing

Example Sentences

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Pawing through the racks of Deep Cover, a vintage shop in lower Manhattan, it isn’t too hard to come across a Grant Hill-era Fila T-shirt.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

Pawing pallidly at their instruments, muttering doggerel into their collars, they sound like nothing so much as that first, staggeringly inept band you formed for a giggle with your schoolmates.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2010

Pawing through the paperwork is not what documentaries do best.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pawing the ground is a horse’s way of begging.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Pawing the hatch cover open he heaved himself out of the cockpit and tumbled into the water.

From A Yankee Flier Over Berlin by Laune, Paul