Example Sentences

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Apparently they were scrounging around to find someone to pay who would produce an “objective” report with the desired low price, near their offer.

From Forbes • Mar. 22, 2013

Tucked away in an alley off Ward Court NW, in Dupont Circle, rats were scrounging for their meals among a cluster of trash cans and dumpsters by several apartment buildings.

From Washington Post

Newspapers were scrounging extra supplies from such sources as music publishers and slump-stricken comic-book proprietors; they were also borrowing from each other.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Apollo cabin and the Hunters were scrounging for arrows.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

Before we entered the valley, the scouts had brought to him two Austrian soldiers absentees from their unit, who were scrounging and drinking in an isolated village.

From The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot by Colt, Oliver C.