How to Use scavenger in a Sentence

scavenger

noun

• Print up a list of clues that lead the hunters from egg to egg, scavenger-hunt-style.
  — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2020
• And there, soon enough, would be the carcass, swollen in the sun, too much meat even for the scavengers to keep up with.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• The carcass was burned to make sure the virus didn’t spread to any scavengers, Beckmen said.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2023
• The map will be useful June 18 during the Horcrux Hunt and the scavenger hunt.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 7 June 2017
• And Star Wars has its share of desert planet scavengers.
  — Ani Bundel, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2019
• Pappas has contended that the Land Bank has thrown a wrench in the scavenger sale through the years.
  — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2022
• So in came the scavengers, to buy those mines for cheap, with vague promises to renew them.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 9 July 2019
• The bags were dropped into Yaquina Bay where scavengers set about cleaning the bones.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• Weird Al Yankovic has been a scavenger at pop’s margins for four decades.
  — Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
• Here’s the menu: Tricks of the Snapping Trade Snapping turtles are both scavengers and hunters.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
• This coin-sized scavenger was found in the Marianas Trench.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2021
• The birds, which are scavengers, are renowned for their massive wingspan.
  — Claire Hao, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
• The whale’s eye was still intact, even though the eyes are usually one of the first body parts to get picked apart by scavengers.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Feb. 2024
• Tiger sharks are known for voracious appetites and are some of the ocean’s most avid scavengers.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024
• This is an acorn worm, a scavenger of seafloor sediment that the researchers found in the North Atlantic.
  — Discover Magazine, 7 July 2010
• On weekends, the family likes to take trips to the park, go swimming, ride bikes and have scavenger hunts.
  — Jane Hanson, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2021
• Police can be seen chasing scavengers through the streets.
  — Todd Pitman, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2018
• In the red zone, Zoom parties and at-home scavenger hunts are suggested.
  — Gary Dinges, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
• On the left, a figure of a Tusken Raider is brandishing a weapon known as a gaffi stick, while on the right is a figure of a Jawa, a scavenger of the desert.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
• The researchers refer to the giant isopod as a scavenger.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Aug. 2022
• Raccoons are brazen scavengers with a talent for mind games.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Let's Roam offers themed scavenger hunts in cities around the U.S. teach the history of landmarks.
  — Mallory Abreu, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 July 2021
• The lots were acquired as part of the 2017 biannual Cook County tax scavenger sale.
  — Corilyn Shropshire, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
• Think about the scavenger bird and images of disease and decay soon follow.
  — Gertrude Kitongo, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
• There was also a photo scavenger hunt among the challenges.
  — Gary Curreri, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 May 2017
• The wreck of the submarine USS Perch has disappeared, a victim of scavengers.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
• The couple revealed the news to their family through a scavenger hunt with the younger Duggar siblings.
  — Christina Dugan, PEOPLE.com, 8 July 2017
• But that approach is failing as the number of scavengers declines and the amount of household waste rises.
  — Michael Holtz, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2018
• Capsules fall off horse cadavers and can get picked up by birds and other scavengers, Pollitt says.
  — science.org, 23 July 2024
• Many of these creatures were buried by mudslides, which protected their remains from scavengers and decay.
  — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024