scrounge
verb (used with object)
to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it.
scrounges
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present tense formof scrounge (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Broke and missing his passport but infused with a traveler’s spirit, Khalid scrounges for odd jobs — restaurant work, cleaning the marina, painting someone’s boat — to make enough money to fly back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024
The art-house world, which depends on older audiences and scrounges for financial scraps, has been particularly hard-hit.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
Abu Malek said he scrounges the items needed for the inflatables.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2020
Our hero actually chooses to stay very close to his family - he hides in his home’s unheated garage attic and scrounges for food in Dumpsters.
From Washington Times ● May 16, 2017
Ratty scrounges a prime rope fra' somewheers, an' we creeps out after nightfall.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various
