Sample Sentences for
ferret out
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    They try to ferret out a soldier's potential weaknesses.  (source)
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    I can hardly wait for the day when I'll be able to go to the public library and ferret out the information I need.  (source)
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    Perhaps the Admiral's looking for someone else to help him ferret out the killer.  (source)
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    The eyes of the most bullheaded boys radiate a shining determination: every ounce of their attention has been trained to ferret out weakness.  (source)
    ferret out = search for and discover through persistent investigation
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    It was all a part of preparing us for the real world, and ferreting out the "Gray Man."  (source)
    ferreting out = searching for and discovering through persistent investigation
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    ...Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.  (source)
    ferreted out = searched for and discovered through persistent investigation
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    Ferreting in one's soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed.†  (source)
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    Ought to ferret out the mystery before we go.  (source)
    ferret out = discover through persistent investigation
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    Hel's a master at ferreting out secrets.  (source)
    ferreting out = discovering through persistent investigation
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    I'm going to wash, find a tunic, and then check with Baldor and see if he's ferreted out any more of Galbatorix's killers.†  (source)
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    Yes — yes — the end is not so difficult; if I had only a brain active enough to ferret out the means of attaining it.  (source)
    ferret out = discover through persistent investigation
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    For the same reason he'd taken to spending hours in the more obscure regions of the library stacks, ferreting out arcane lore.  (source)
    ferreting out = searching for and discovering through persistent investigation
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    And now those high school history lessons also seemed strikingly incomplete, all but devoid of explanations for the terms "Hutu" and "Tutsi," and of facts that Deo gradually ferreted out.†  (source)
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