Example Sentences

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Three piglets on the loose from an abandoned sty were foraging in the city street.

From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2022

If more people foraged but were foraging things like mallow, black mustard, garlic mustard, nonnative bramble berries, we’d actually be doing our ecosystems a world of good.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2022

But what they found instead was that the birds were foraging only on the soft marsh areas that were already weakened and collapsing because of rising sea levels.

From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2016

In addition, the courting males beat their wings at a shallower amplitude and faster than they did while they were foraging.

From Nature • Oct. 6, 2015

The enemy were foraging in all directions west of the hills, and I was afraid you had been overmatched by some of them, and I concluded to march in search of you.

From A Lieutenant at Eighteen by Optic, Oliver