scavenge
verb (used with object)
to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.
are scavenging
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present progressiveof scavenge.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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In most cases, these are scavenging or predatory animals that ate sick birds — and the virus has died in these animals and not become contagious between them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
Other friends, in the occupied areas near Kherson, are scavenging diesel from ambushed and abandoned Russian tanker convoys, Chumak said.
From Reuters ● Mar. 11, 2022
Some people are scavenging in a picturesque mountain town’s deserted supermarket.
From Economist ● Apr. 4, 2018
In the first scene, they are scavenging lumps of coal to exchange for milk at the market.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2016
They live in holes higher up, but these are refuges for the day while they are scavenging in the sea.
From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent
