How to Use scouring in a Sentence

scouring

noun

• Air Force career took them — and decades of estate-sale scouring.
  — Emma Alpern, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2021
• The second head is the Sunflower, which is made for scrubbing and scouring.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 16 Oct. 2017
• Let that sit for at least an hour, then scrub the solution with a heavy-duty scouring pad.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• It’s made of palm fibers that are tougher than standard scouring pads but gentle enough not to scuff your Le Creuset Dutch oven.
  — Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2023
• This Italian dining set was the result of hours of online scouring for the perfect piece.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 8 June 2021
• In the past, thousands of people would come for the scouring, holding a fair in the circle of a prehistoric fort nearby.
  — Emily Cleaver, Smithsonian, 6 July 2017
• That scouring is what turned up the Humboldt County vaccines.
  — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2021
• Another great crossover from the auto-body industry is the scouring pastes that clean and abrade a surface at the same time.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2019
• The Ringer, the original stainless-steel cast-iron cleaner, is Amazon's #1 best seller in dish scouring pads.
  — Daria Smith, Southern Living, 13 May 2021
• Stock up on specialty tools, like a plastic scraper, scrub brushes and non-scratch scouring pads.
  — Maya Pottiger, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
• This is evidence for near-wellbore scouring of blockages by DP.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• Stainless-steel pans can stand up to a certain amount of scouring, but abrasive cleaning methods could damage your nonstick pans.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Sep. 2021
• For the first few months, rats were almost daily visitors, coming in through unseen holes or through a hole in the bathroom that Ms. Garcia plugged with a steel-wool scouring pad and mints, which rats hate.
  — Kim Barker, New York Times, 25 July 2017
• Evidence on the ground, such as extensive tree damage and scouring of road surface and soil, are indicative of winds of that magnitude.
  — Joe Siess, oregonlive, 28 July 2021
• The Grommet has colorful, European-style scouring pads (four for $12.95).
  — oregonlive, 21 Apr. 2021
• Our own scouring of corporate websites was completed before the killing by police of George Floyd in May, and many companies have spoken out about the need for racial justice since then.
  — Michael Hyter, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2020
• Geological metaphors feel apt—the surfaces resemble landscapes shaped by the scouring and dumping of glaciers.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2020
• Most, though, named sustainability as their reason for diving into Goodwill’s pay-by-the-pound bins and scouring racks and racks at Salvation Army.
  — refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• Avoid Abrasives Stainless steel can be easily dulled and damaged by using an abrasive scouring pad or cleaning agent.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2018
• The park’s incredible formations wouldn’t exist if not for the heavy-duty scouring power of Mother Nature at her most intense.
  — Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 22 Apr. 2021
• Some people may often decide to hire an accountant out of fear of filing incorrectly and getting audited, but the IRS rarely asks for an in-depth scouring of people's taxes.
  — Judith Ohikuare, refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• As college scouring director, Sears was responsible was overseeing much of the Lions' drafts in recent years.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2023
• That used to mean scouring websites and social media for scraps of information posted randomly by land managers or recent users.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2021
• Confirming exactly how much bigger each planet is will require true scouring.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2017
• The scouring of the former president’s life and legacy seems to be a welcome topic for writers and biographers (and readers) as President Trump tries his best to wipe clear the legislative legacy of his predecessor.
  — Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 3 May 2017
• Skura also offers heavy-duty scouring pads, reusable microfiber wipes, drying towels and cleaning sets.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2022
• This requires continual and diligent scouring of every Twitter account and Discord community.
  — Abhinav Girdhar, Forbes, 18 July 2022

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024