scouring

Example Sentences

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He tasks officers with scouring the local area to see if they can spot her quickly.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

Grieving often prompts frantic spelunking missions—rereading old letters or texts, scouring your camera roll and random social media accounts for any scrap of a memory of your loved one.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026

The caregiver for her elderly mother and a grandchild, she spends much of her time scouring government stores and the black market for food and medicine.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon are also scouring the country to build out the sprawling windowless concrete structures, driven by the insatiable computing demands of AI.

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

She’d been studying the bronze map for days now, scouring Daedalus’s laptop for information.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan