Scour means: To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent. Related words include seek or search. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Scour in practice.
Scour in a sentence
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Scour meaning
- To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.
- To remove debris and dirt (from something) by purging; to sweep along or off by a current of water.
- To clear the digestive tract (of an animal) by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge.
Example sentences (20)
Link will have to scour the land of Hyrule to come up with all the seeds he'll need to upgrade his inventory fully.
Presidents’ Day — a day when we catch up on some sleep, and, of course, scour the internet for a good sale (or two).
The pipes were block concrete under the guise of ongoing repairs to scour vents at the extreme left of the anicut.
A row of officers scour the grass and shrubs for evidence as bins, hedgerows and under cars are also searched.
Hazmat suit clad cops have "raided a home" as they scour the streets for suspected chemical attack fugitive Abdul Ezedi.
Police investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Endeavour Hills and scour the surrounding area.
Jonathan later paid for a helicopter to scour the vast mountain terrain accompanied by an Indian mountaineer.
And that means we must resist the temptation to scour the past for examples or precursors of modern science.
This means marketers, designers, and social media promoters no longer need to scour generic stock photo or video libraries.
Now indentured to Galactus, the Surfer would scour the cosmos for planets for his master to devour - until he came to Earth.
They have brought in a search-and-rescue canine unit to scour the premises for any sign of secret prisons.
The Employment Index edged down 0.6 points to 56.3 as employers continued to scour a tight labor market for qualified workers.
I was lucky enough to get one, thanks to my grandad, who kindly volunteered to scour our local shops in the middle of the day.
Come to the gardens for the Fairy House Exhibition and to pick-up a Scavenger Hunt and scour the gardens for fairies and more.
Every week, we scour the web to bring you the most unique, special, and discounted products we can find.
Does this genius think that firemen stand on the roof of their building and scour the skyline looking for fires on the horizon?
Every week, we scour Twitter for the funniest tweets we can find and narrow them down to the very best.
Although the official lookbook hasn’t been released, trust us to scour through Instagram to get a sneak peak of the new pieces.
Marketers would scour the web, hunting for keywords promising high search volumes and low competition.
There were no mapping apps on your phone and the best way to find new trails was to scour forums and YouTube for videos and clues.
Common combinations with scour
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- scour the 39×
- to scour 29×
- and scour 7×
- would scour 4×
- we scour 4×
- scour for 3×
- police scour 2×
- will scour 2×
- they scour 2×
- scour this 2×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word scour. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.