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

The sport is a refuge for Claressa, who has a chaotic family life and often has to scrounge for food, and she bonds closely with her coach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

“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 walk to the edge of the village with you,” said Sirius, “see if I can scrounge another paper.”

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Broke and missing his passport but infused with a traveler’s spirit, Khalid scrounges for odd jobs — restaurant work, cleaning the marina, painting someone’s boat — to make enough money to fly back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024

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

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

"Almost everything in our home is scrounged, and I never buy, for example, soap or toiletries or medical supplies, or shoes and clothes and tools and garden supplies," he says.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Many of the planes are museum pieces, kept flying with scrounged parts and pluck, and stand little chance against modern warplanes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 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

And I scrounged up several options from my old, long-stored CD collection for her to use.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2023

The only navigational aid in his possession was a tattered state road map he’d scrounged at a gas station.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

Analysts are scrounging for any signal about the economy’s trajectory this month because the government shutdown has turned off the spigot of official government data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

At times, she has resorted to scrounging up used parts or using screws from the hardware store to repair it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024

I get it now—it's probably not a good idea to take on new expenses when one parent is scrounging for hours at a hardware store—but back then, I was so angry.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz