Example Sentences
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Mothers feed babies with scraps scavenged from trash cans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
As the afternoon wore on, the family used rope scavenged from a neighbor’s courtyard to secure a tarp between two taller chunks of concrete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2025
What the scientists are not able to prove conclusively is whether this particular, unfortunate terror bird was killed in the attack, or if the caiman scavenged its remains.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
The LaPrele site in Converse County preserves the remains of a killed or scavenged sub-adult mammoth and an associated camp occupied during the time the animal was butchered almost 13,000 years ago.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
In the barn they scavenged a few handfuls of some grain he did not recognize out of the dusty floor of a metal hopper and stood eating it dust and all.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
