scavenge
verb (used with object)
to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.
is scavenging
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present progressiveof scavenge (3rd person singular).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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The Trump Administration is scavenging for ideas to lower costs for home-buyers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
While Lyla has her own career ambitions, she’s not the jackal that Chase is, scavenging a future from the bones of the present.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
They are Vorticellæ; and every one of those bells, by the ciliary current on its rim, is scavenging the water - till a tadpole comes by and scavenges it.
From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley
