How to Use scavenge in a Sentence

scavenge

verb

• The bears scavenged the woods for food.
• Rats scavenged in the trash.
• He scavenged the town dump for automobile parts.
• Hundreds of pairs flock to the city to scavenge for fish near markets and canals.
  — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 28 June 2018
• But the dingoes in the Tanami didn’t just scavenge scraps.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Jan. 2018
• In some parts of the country, schools had to, and still do, close to allow pupils to scavenge for food.
  — Vincent Kituku, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
• 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
• On the team plane, players scavenged for blankets and drinks to keep warm.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2017
• Avelar survived the first six months in the city by scavenging food from the trash.
  — Alice Driver, Longreads, 30 June 2018
• Others went out from the school in kayaks to scavenge food and water from their old homes.
  — Mattathias Schwartz, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Dec. 2017
• Two-way big men don’t grow on trees, but Daryl Morey is smart enough to scavenge the jungle floor.
  — Matt Dollinger, SI.com, 21 June 2017
• 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
• That’s when my husband and daughter went out to scavenge for food amid the wreckage.
  — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Ji lost a leg and an arm while scavenging coal as a boy, and later fled to South Korea.
  — Oren Dorell, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2018
• 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
• It’s also known that sharks scavenge dead whales, blues and others.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2024
• Native ravens were by far the most common visitors to the dead rats, scavenging a total of 93 times.
  — Bygennaro Tomma, science.org, 11 July 2024
• The boy has plenty to do each day of the war: jumping jacks, sit-ups, pushups, gorilla swings, and tree pose during breaks from reading and doing the math in workbooks scavenged from the rubble of his school.
  — Beth Bachmann, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024