look through belongings
Frequency: 6.57.4 per million words
to search among someone's possessions to find something
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Examples (10)
- Customs officers have the right to look through your belongings.
- He suspected his roommate had looked through his personal belongings while he was out.
- I'm just looking through my old belongings in the attic, searching for photos.
- The police will need to look through the victim's belongings for clues.
- You shouldn't look through someone's belongings without their permission.
- By the time she got home, the thief had already looked through all her belongings.
- Looking through a guest's belongings is a serious breach of trust.
- He opened the suitcase to look through its belongings, hoping to find some identification.
- Did you give them permission to look through your belongings?
- She felt violated knowing someone had looked through her belongings.