scavenge

Example Sentences

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“Several horses died at South Tufa over the winter and their scavenged carcasses were draped between tufa towers and along the lakeshore.”

From Los Angeles Times

The subsistence labor of impoverished scavenging for littered aluminum cans collides with the number “668,” pointedly cited in the sculpture’s label.

From Los Angeles Times

The condors scavenge meat from dead animals, felled by the lead ammunition, and fall ill — often fatally.

From Seattle Times

Able-bodied men are asking for bus money to reach Houston, Denver and Orlando, where they said jobs await; little children roam the alleyways scavenging for food and begging for change.

From New York Times

Although the scavenging birds may have initially feasted in the wake of the environmental disaster, it seems the devastation eventually forced them to seek rotting flesh elsewhere.

From Science Magazine