SCAVENGE in a Sentence
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1. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers who were buried in fontis in this manner.
2. If you need car parts that the dealers no longer stock, try to scavenge for odd bits and pieces at the auto wreckers' yards.
2. If you need car parts that the dealers no longer stock, try to scavenge for odd bits and pieces at the auto wreckers' yards.
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Meanings and Examples of SCAVENGE
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scavenge
v. hunt through discarded materials for usable items; search, especially for food
Classic Sentence:
1 Sometimes he listened with dignified interest to details of her businesses, nodding approval at her sagacity, and at other times he called her somewhat dubious tradings scavenging, highway robbery and extortion.
2 I had this particular bit of local garbage from our garbage bird, our ibis, our scavenging turkey-buzzard, Mrs Bolton.
3 We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis de Crequi, discharged their loads directly into the sewer.
4 To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
5 Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers who were buried in fontis in this manner.
Example Sentence:
1 If you need car parts that the dealers no longer stock, try to scavenge for odd bits and pieces at the auto wreckers' yards.