Scoured Sentence Examples

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  • Wool ranked second in value ($2,210,790), and according to the estimate of the National Association of Wool Manufactures for 1907, Idaho ranked fourth among the wool-producing states in number of sheep (2,500,000), third in wool, washed and unwashed (17,250,000 lb), and fourth in scoured wool (5,692,500 It).

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  • His dark gaze scoured her face as Alex would have.

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  • His black eyes scoured her features and lingered on her lips.

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  • She scoured each side of the hall for signs labeling what doors might lead to what.

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  • His eyes scoured her youthful features.

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  • We've scoured the web to find the best sites and information to make your science fair project successful!

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  • His gaze scoured her face.

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  • Chances are, if you haven't found your sacrificial pair of pants at a resale shop, you've scoured your closet and have instead decided to donate your favorite, best fitting, most comfortable pair of denim blues to the cause.

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  • If you have scoured the bookstores, library and Internet to no avail, you may consider composing your own retirement poem.

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  • Look no further, because LoveToKnow has scoured the web for everything there is to know about Elebits.

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  • We've scoured for some of the best secrets this Halo game has to offer.

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  • You've definitely come to the right place, because we've scoured the web for some of the best collections.

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  • We've scoured the web for cheats and Easter eggs, and here are what we have found.

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  • We here at LoveToKnow have scoured the globe for some of the most powerful, most user friendly, and most "worth it" smartphones and PDA phones on your behalf and below you will find the results of our efforts.

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  • If you've ever scoured the hair color aisle in any major supermarket or beauty supply store, you've most likely seen a swatch guide filled with confusing numbers and alluring names to define a color formula.

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  • We've scoured the Internet to find the information you need to either design your own science units or places where you can purchase complete science kits.

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  • The pair based their design on New York's Central Park and scoured the world for interesting trees and plant life.

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  • The writers and editors of LoveToKnow have scoured the internet to offer you these hot bikini pictures.

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  • We've scoured the web and found all kinds of sources where you can access free MP3 downloads for this increasingly popular genre of Christian music.

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  • Utopia Platinia Yards is an excellent website where the web master scoured the Internet for blueprints and schematics in order to provide them in one central location on his website.

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  • The wool product of the state in 1900 was 9,638,002 lb, and in 1910 was 8,943,750 lb washed and unwashed and 3,040,875 lb scoured.

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  • The production of wool in 1909 was 38,400,000 lb of washed and unwashed wool and 12,288,000 lb of scoured wool.

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  • When Martha did have a few free hours, she and my wife scoured every auction or antique shop for miles around, like two kids on a treasure hunt.

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  • Fishing the hollows scoured out by the rough seas at low tide produces superb bags of quality cod to lugworm and peeler crab baits.

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  • In the lower lying alpine most of the caves have been scoured away or filled in with glacial erratics.

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  • However, during the winter gales the sand is often scoured away leaving just the rocks behind with very little sand.

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  • Scoured by Ice Age glaciers, almost the entire length of Iceland's east coast is deeply indented.

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  • The 20ft high embankment was breached during the 1968 floods and a good deal of the clay puddling was scoured out.

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  • These allowed a faster flow of water which scoured the riverbed, taking huge amounts of silt downstream into the Firth of Clyde.

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  • Groups of 20-30 men, and some women, then scoured the town, collecting passes from men they saw.

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  • We also scoured the usual bird websites for trip reports.

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  • Glaciation has strongly scoured away the deeply-weathered soils that presumably existed here in preglacial time, revealing firm and rugged ledges in the low hills and swells of the ground, and spreading an irregular drift cover over the lower parts, whereby the drainage is often much disordered; here being detained in lakes and swamps (muskegs) and there rushing down rocky rapids.

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  • Silk in the gum, it is found, absorbs these salts more freely than boiled-off; so to use it for weighting there are these great inducements - a saving of the costly and tedious boiling-off, a saving of the 25% weight which would have disappeared in boiling and a surface on which much greater sophistication can be practised than on scoured silk.

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  • A dyke of syenite granite here crosses the valley, so hard that the river had nowhere scoured a deep channel through it, and so it was found possible to construct the dam entirely in the open air, without the r t000 Acres 1800 Acr s '?

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  • With the rockabilly revival of the 1970s, tiny European reissue labels scoured the United States for master tapes.

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  • Aided by his wife, Jean, he also scoured archives sent over by the US authorities.

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  • Expert editors at Ace Search have scoured the Internet to bring all the best...

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  • Plots have a hungry look, headstones are tilted, scoured by dry wind.

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  • Flood waters had scoured out big, elliptical scallops in the rock.

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  • Since the moment retailers have been operating stores online, people have scoured the Web looking for great deals on merchandise.

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  • I have scoured their litter box and removed it temporarily.

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  • Betsy and Martha surreptitiously scoured the media for results, in spite of our agreement not to do so.

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  • Real estate records were scoured for any known relative of the now deceased murderer in an attempt to locate family owned property, a difficult chore as mother Grasso wedded three men and lived with countless others.

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  • Later when the ice retreated farther and the unloaded streams returned to their earlier degrading habit, they more or less completely scoured out the valley deposits, the remains of which are now seen in terraces on either side of the present flood plains.

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  • In most parts the Laurentian hills are bare roches moutonnees scoured by the glaciers of the Ice Age, but a broad band of clay land extends across northern Quebec and Ontario just north of the divide.

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  • She returned to the desk and scoured the paperwork for some sort of identifying information on the place she'd been or the company that developed the forms.

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  • His eyes scoured her face, lingered on the plump lips he had tasted, and glanced lower at the healthy bosom pressed to his chest.

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  • Water dripped from above and tiny snowballs cascaded down the slope, bouncing off his un-helmeted head and under his collar as his line scoured the bank of snow above him.

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  • His gaze scoured her face, something obviously going on behind eyes that were darker than normal.

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  • Jenn scoured their cell.

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  • For weeks he scoured the interminable snow-covered plains of Poland in pursuit of the Polish guerillas, penetrating as far south as Jaroslau in Galicia, by which time he had lost two-thirds of his 15,000 men with no apparent result.

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  • In connexion with the Germans at Visby, the capital of Gotland, and at Riga, where they had a house from 1231, the people of Lubeck with their armed vessels scoured the sea between the Trave and the Neva.

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  • Between 1811 and 1814 hands of so-called Luddites, starving operatives out of work, scoured the country, smashing machinerythe immediate cause of their misfortunesand committing every sort of outrage.

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  • The warp consists of fine muddy sediment which is suspended in the tidal river water and appears to be derived from material scoured from the bed of the Humber by the action of the tide and a certain amount of sediment brought down by the tributary streams which join the Humber some distance from its mouth.

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  • While these ancient events shaped the topography in a broad way, its final development was comparatively recent, during the glacial period, when the loose materials were scoured from some regions and spread out as boulder clay, or piled up as moraines in others; and the original water-ways were blocked in many places.

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  • For some purposes - making of gauzes, crapes, flour-bolting cloth and for what is termed " souples " - the silk is not scoured, and for silks to be dyed certain dark colours half-scouring is practised.

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  • Sections of the Missouri flood plain made by the United States geological survey show a great variety of material of varying coarseness, the stream bed being scoured at one place, and filled at another by currents and floods of varying swiftness, so that sometimes the deposits are of coarse gravel, sometimes of fine sand, or of fine silt, and it is probable that any section of such an alluvial plain would show deposits of a similar character.

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  • For several years he scoured the Mediterranean in command of the Genoese fleet, waging war on the Turks and the Barbary pirates.

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  • From time to time bands of soldiery, whom the government was powerless to control, scoured the country, and rebellion succeeded rebellion till 1859, when the last fight against open rebels took place at Chichamba near Risod.

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  • She scoured his features.

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