scrounges
- present tense form of scrounge (3rd person singular).
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
The revenue agency, as it scrounges for new recruits, could run into the type of problem the Border Patrol faced when it went on a spending and hiring spree 15 years ago.
From Washington Times • Jan. 6, 2023
As fuel prices rose, he gave up cooking with gas and instead scrounges for firewood.
From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2022
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
