Example sentences for: scouring

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

  • Dwelly also gives fraoch-an-ruinnse for the cross-leaved heath ( E. tetralix ) which might mean `heather with the long tail,' but more probably means `heather for rinsing or scouring.

  • Since the actor is only 23, this means scouring a rather meager past.

  • It is not always that everything is hidden and science must ferret out the mysteries by scouring for unknown facts, although often science proceeds in the manner of finding new facts.

  • (And ply--the number of layers of paper in the product--isn't everything, the Envision Preference Ultra is a 3-ply "premium" product, but it still feels like a scouring pad after touching a virgin fiber tissue.)

  • ' In Scots English (and Burns's songs) reenge (in its variant forms) is a `scouring pad made of the twisted stems of heather,' E. tetralix presumably being best for this purpose.


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