scrounge

Rescuers used what tools they could scrounge — shovels, hoes, pickaxes, their bare hands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

While some landlords offer a short grace period for renters to scrounge together enough cash, fintech companies are offering a different deal: split your rent into installments throughout the month.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026

Presumably the gambit is to catch Mr. Powell for lying to Congress regarding the office renovations or scrounge for details in search of some other so far undetected offense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

“It was absolutely horrendous. We were really struggling, having to scrounge around for masks and gloves,“ says Mandi Masters, a community midwife from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024

I'll have to scrounge around in the now-collapsed canvas to get the spare material for patching.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

The art-house world, which depends on older audiences and scrounges for financial scraps, has been particularly hard-hit.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

And so Silverio dismisses Luis as little more than “an entertainer, an opinion peddler” who scrounges for likes on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

Abu Malek said he scrounges the items needed for the inflatables.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2020

Our hero actually chooses to stay very close to his family - he hides in his home’s unheated garage attic and scrounges for food in Dumpsters.

From Washington Times ● May 16, 2017

Ratty scrounges a prime rope fra' somewheers, an' we creeps out after nightfall.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various

The group came together at Sedalia, Mo., high school, scrounged up money and bought a caboose from a local salvage yard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

He scrounged together stopgap university funding and outside donations to keep the operation running “on fumes,” vowing “to go down swinging.”

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025

The men ran out of food, subsisting on what they scrounged up: vitamins pills and pancake mix.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025

Some folks started buying high-flow toilets from Canada; others scrounged for beloved older models in salvage yards.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2025

As he scrounged in Gilju, escape to China slipped from Shin’s mind.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

But then that moment passed and the Boston-bred comic was once again starting from square one scrounging for joke ideas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Of late, investors scrounging for stocks have preferred junk —smaller companies with poor fundamentals and exorbitant valuations—over quality companies with healthy sales and earnings growth, solid balance sheets, and more attractive prices.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

Macron’s government is currently scrounging for tens-of-billions in cost savings as it tries to rein in the government’s budget deficit, which reached 5.8% of economic output last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025

Friends, my family included, have been scrounging for fans, dehumidifiers, and sump pumps to lend to friends affected by the flood.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024

Adam was trying to arrange the letter’s information in his mind, and it was as restless as a setting hen scrounging into the nest.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck