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How to use ferreted in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ferreted? Here are some examples.

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If there's a story that has any connection with the Super Bowl, it will be ferreted out by 3,000 newspaper, radio and TV people.
Our grandparents' generation was full of savers who ferreted away money during the Great Depression and the war.
We ferreted several warrens, and thus several breeding groups, in each capture area.
The designer goods are in there, but they must be ferreted out of mass quantities stacked on undifferentiated shelves in an encompassing sprawl.
But one night, a woolly-hatted youth ferreted around in the skip and extracted the ancient rucksack.
When the food supplies dwindled, they ferreted around for root vegetables, insects and anything else that can be eaten.
But the more answers the couple have ferreted out, the more questions are raised.
We should have quintupled the size of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and really ferreted out the evil of discrimination in our society.
New glasses carried round on trays, arriving as top-ups straight from the bottle, ferreted away from shelves as soon as it had been put down by an unsuspecting guest.
I looked down at the little ashtray on his gold coloured hostess trolley, two lonely pound coins looked back up at me, so I ferreted around in my pocket for something smaller.
Katherine and Kyla ferreted around the racks looking for good clothes.
I had ferreted around my closet for a CD that seemed mildly interesting to me, since most of my music was on my laptop, and I was disgusted with the failed search.
As ever more information from outside is ferreted into the country on DVDs and USB drives, state rhetoric and reality grow further apart.
Internet users soon ferreted out his name, job title and location and he was eased out of his job.
The problem is that these people are being ferreted away in nooks and crannies and actually in jails with locked doors.
And of course interest should accrue on any late payments ferreted out by the audit.
I just ferreted this hole as I wanted to find out where all the bolt holes were before I gassed it, and as I had the nets in my pocket I thought...why not!
Although the tribe's witchdoctor refused to reveal his secret, the farmer's dog successfully ferreted out the mysterious plant.
But in international deals and lawsuits, such software must be run by cultural and linguistic experts to make sure the correct search terms are used and the right information is ferreted out.
The book is especially strong on the Orwellian nature of the Cuban state. Too often, however, the authors feel compelled to report every bit of information they have ferreted out.
Examples from Classical Literature
Beyond that, he gave the story of the facts, so far as they had been ferreted out by Tarbell.
I sought them greedily, and ferreted them out indefatigably, and I have been able to bring together some objects of great value.
Though a young man, I have ferreted out evidence, got up cases, and seen lots of life.
Robert Stuart, however, set out in a canoe with five men and an interpreter, ferreted out the wreckers in their retreat, and succeeded in wrestling from them their booty.
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