scrounge

At one point, the man who created such transporting excursions into grace as the Opus 39 Waltzes had to scrounge around for his own piano.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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

“It shouldn’t be. You shouldn’t scrounge to save money to go somewhere and be told you’ll be put on a waiting list. That should not happen, but it does.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025

"They occasionally did try and slip out up to the production office and see if they could scrounge some cooked chicken rather than having to cook it themselves," Huffam revealed.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024

“I called my editor’s secretary and had her scrounge up a couple copies. Maybe they had them at Harcourt, who knows?”

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

The revenue agency, as it scrounges for new recruits, could run into the type of problem the Border Patrol faced when it went on a spending and hiring spree 15 years ago.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 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

But tools can be misplaced, lost or destroyed, potentially leaving guns inoperable unless someone scrounges up a U.S.-supplied wrench.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

As fuel prices rose, he gave up cooking with gas and instead scrounges for firewood.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2022

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

Jack dispensed with the card entirely and scrounged up only $2 from his room, which he handed to Finn with an unceremonious “here.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 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

They had scrounged a small amount of fresh food for the evening meal.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024

The family scrounged a potato, sometimes, a bit of bannock.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Jeff considers himself a "bit of Robin Hood mixed with anarchist direct action", only scrounging in more affluent neighbourhoods and giving away many of his finds.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 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

His insatiable appetite for dominance of both government and industry will always leave him scrounging for more.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025

Gum Baby walked down the table, scrounging for leftovers.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia