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
  • The 20th Century Studios pic follows a group of young space colonizers who, while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 27 July 2024
  • Goannas had the highest number of scavenging events among nonbird species, engaging in seven flesh feasts.
    Bygennaro Tomma, science.org, 11 July 2024

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