How to Use scavenge in a Sentence

scavenge

verb
Definition of scavengenext
  • Hundreds of pairs flock to the city to scavenge for fish near markets and canals.
    — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 28 June 2018
  • The road cars were scavenged for parts for the limited racing the Speed 12 did, and that was that.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In the game, players scavenge for weapons and fight to be the last person standing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Avelar survived the first six months in the city by scavenging food from the trash.
    — Alice Driver, Longreads, 30 June 2018
  • His team also was able to scavenge for food in the Statler’s banquet-hall kitchens.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2021
  • The video shows that these species can scavenge on the same food source at the same time without any or much fighting.
    — National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2018
  • There were the pelts of small mammals and birds that hung in our garage — and from which my dad scavenged to make fishing flies.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Jen and Chris will have to scavenge enough food to avoid going hungry.
    — Maddie McGarvey, History & Culture, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The rhythms of play are functionally the same: drop, scavenge, fight.
    — Julie Muncy, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The boys have this under control, though, and scavenge around the house for other old things of Jack’s that might be there.
    — refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Hunger was driving villagers to scavenge and log in the forest.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2023
  • From Lake Maracaibo in the west to the Orinoco oil belt in the east, abandoned wells rust in the sun as looters scavenge the metal.
    — Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The rats scavenging for food drive Marcus Emery crazy at night.
    — Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2018
  • As the fire burned, Steele was able to scavenge some canned food and jars of peanut butter from a pantry that had not yet been destroyed by the fire.
    — NBC News, 11 Jan. 2020
  • But that doesn’t stop me from going back to such places a few weeks later to try and scavenge the few birds that remain.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2020
  • From the outside, the crab looks like any other swimming crab scavenging through the fine sand.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Volunteers had scavenged the wood to build the house and had painted murals on the outer walls.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • Lead poisoning is still the primary threat to the species, which scavenge for food.
    — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 8 July 2020
  • Lead from the bullets used to kill game can can poison birds that scavenge the carcasses.
    — Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2020
  • For months, authorities scavenged for clues on where the 25-year-old may have been.
    — Fox News, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Please don’t leave us to scavenge in the cellars of old record stores and rock stars’ homes for the music of Broadway musicals.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The mums used hundreds of feet of ribbon, and the class had to scavenge for a piece of cardboard big enough to be the backing for the mums, senior Neely Smith told NewsWest 9.
    — Sasha Richie, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • This is the guy who comes from a city that lionized a rat who scavenged a slice of pizza in a subway station.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 29 July 2019
  • The most common way to find success in the golf-ball-recycling world is to employ divers to scavenge the balls from the lakes on and around golf courses.
    — Luke Wright, azcentral, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Buzzards scavenged their bodies and pecked out their eyes.
    — Alex Devoid, azcentral, 13 May 2018
  • There's certainly a lot to be said about a Tyrannosaurus rex, even a scavenging one.
    — NBC News, 20 June 2018
  • And scavenging whales that beached themselves or turned up dead on shore still caused drama.
    — Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • Also, ants will scavenge for food whatever the weather, and your kitchen could be the perfect place.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2024
  • Only the friendliest wolves would have been able to scavenge, however.
    — Brian Hare, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Catch an eggs-citing train ride, enjoy a delicious brunch, meet the Easter Bunny, and scavenge for eggs.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2024

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