foraying

present participle of foray

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for foraying
Verb
  • While plundering a dungeon lair and stealing artifacts from a museum both have heist elements to them, Skullduggery looks into the other intrigues of adventures in urban environments.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The store released a black-and-white video showing the thieves, which appears to be at least four suspects, plundering the business.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • They were ambushed, and Pauline was killed by stray gunfire from marauding mobsters hell-bent on killing Buford.
    Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Like their giraffe cousins, okapi have a long tongue used for stripping leaves from trees, according to National Geographic.
    Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Still, Notre Dame’s focus on Lemon proved critical in the fourth quarter when USC attempted a receiver pass with Lemon to Lane, a play that never had a chance as Adon Shuler closed on the receiver in the backfield, stripping Lemon.
    The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • On the eve of the war, Jaujard, with the help of staff and volunteers, secretly arranged for the Mona Lisa and thousands of other masterpieces to be evacuated to the French countryside to protect them from looting.
    NPR, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Hamas reportedly executed a leader of the powerful Doghmush clan in March 2024, on grounds of cooperating with Israeli authorities, looting aid convoys and reselling the spoils on black market.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If peaceable trading isn't your dream, consider the corsair life, pillaging other ships for their precious cargo.
    Alan Bradley, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Continue reading … HISTORY HYPOCRITES – Hawley turns tables on reporter when asked if White House renovation is destroying history.
    , FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Saving Denji’s life, Pochita and the young man make a deal to fuse, imbuing him with the ability to turn parts of his body into Devil-destroying chainsaws.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the late seventies, heroin began ravaging Dublin’s inner-city projects.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Hatred, spread through rhetoric, populism and the internet, acts like a virus, ravaging any healthy social organism and bringing, death, destruction and pain.
    Alejandro González Iñárritu, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sixth-generation Texas rancher James Clement III told CNBC the key to eradicating the screwworm threat is years out.
    Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Texas only gained 179 yards for the game, eradicating the good offensive vibes from the previous week.
    Seth Emerson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
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“Foraying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foraying. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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