scavenge
Example Sentences
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I’d done my best with Mr. O’Malley and his vegetables, but all I could scavenge from his wooden bins were a few wilted eggplants.
From Literature
Mothers feed babies with scraps scavenged from trash cans.
Some will double their weight to prepare for wintertime hibernation, often scavenging for calories for up to 20 hours per day.
From Los Angeles Times
Some researchers have suggested that humans and wolves came together almost by accident, when wolves moved to the outskirts of hunter-gatherer communities to scavenge for food.
From BBC
People walk along muddied roads scavenging the wreckage for food.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
