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Example sentences for: ferreted

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The truth in Cookie's Fortune isn't ferreted out à la Murder She Wrote ; it emerges in dribs and drabs--a witness here, a piece of evidence there--as if by natural law.
Jeans, an Australian as his spellings confirm, has ferreted about in the language to uncover words and phrases that have—and might have—some nautical provenance.