scrounge

Example Sentences

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Meals were often cat food or whatever they could scrounge from garbage cans.

From New York Times

He eats whatever he can scrounge up, including, at one point, tropical fish.

From Washington Post

Since then, preoccupied with passing sanctions, scrounging up aid and scouring military inventories to send Ukraine weapons, few in Europe have focused seriously on what that commitment might actually mean.

From New York Times

Inmates also scrounged identities from others behind bars with them, giving them to someone on the outside to file under.

From Washington Times

Putin’s gangster regime has scrounged for cannon fodder in Russia’s prisons, finding criminals to wage a war conducted as a war crime.

From Washington Post