scrounge
Example Sentences
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In 2022, the typical American getting keys to a starter home was 36 years old, an all-time high, and many buyers are into their golden years before they can scrounge together a down payment.
From Seattle Times
Most of the other journalists in the 49 seats scrounge for scarce scraps.
From Washington Times
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
