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Example sentences for: ferreting

How can you use “ferreting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I spent some time ferreting about in the new material and am pleased to report (as I suspected) a sane and sensible approach (in chapter 15) to such topics as “The trend towards informality” (the language, even in Britain, is loosening up), “The objections to sexist language” (“Present usage is unstable.
You add that I am "actually quite good at ferreting out many of the instances where this is, indeed, the case."
Another example: periodicals mailers, stung by sharply rising costs associated with the processing of their mail, insisted that postal officials join them in an effort aimed at finding answers and ferreting
You write that I am "quite good at ferreting out" instances of "instrumentalization of [the Holocaust] toward cheap and self-interested ends."
All three of his arrest-story "sources" speak in a stilted, too-perfectly-advancing-the-story-line way, telling the author more or less the same thing, and congratulating him on his genius in ferreting out this facts.