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    scrounge


    scrounged


    scrounges


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    1. The term scrounge also implied someone who attempted to eat from waste also


    2. He would be a scav if he cleaned that area out, maybe even a scrounge for selling the paper


    3. If it was theft they wouldn't have called it personal unless they were after the lower rates the scrounge pickers sometimes charged on personal cases


    4. He was thought a scrounge at the time, but in less than a century the vines had grown thick, the shelves had grown in and the archwood's cracked limbs had healed


    5. "I find that hard to believe," and painful, the scrounge he tried to save was female, a wasted, scrawny, scabby, blond cackler


    6. The native driver yelled "Are you lost in space? You damn scrounge!" as Alfred brought the android to the curb


    7. Even so, most of the stench was made by the scrounge


    8. If it was the scrounge living in this area he wouldn't want to socialize and quite possibly whatever drugs he was burned out on might make him paranoid


    9. That would mean it was most likely the scrounge


    10. If there was a scrounge lurking down here he intended to make peace with him if possible, if the person still had enough mind left to communicate with

    11. Alfred's light found many cracks in the door and the pictures on the wall showed him the utter depravity this scrounge masturbated in


    12. I think some scrounge died in there


    13. Worse yet, several of the other soldiers Gunt had been able to scrounge from the refugees lacked limbs with which to even wield their fancy weapons


    14. She folded up the length of her tattered day skirt and started to scrounge around on the ground for any and all berries


    15. He needed to scrounge up a


    16. Scrounge yourself up something to eat


    17. Scrooge was considered to be a benefactor because he was finally persuaded by magical spirits to give to these obscene institutions so they could grind the masses down into total starvation and death more effectively than just letting them scrounge and starve on the streets of London


    18. Why does it all have to change?” The tears came fast and fevered now and Vince hurried to scrounge up the box of tissues his mother had brought him when he had the flu


    19. 'I was just wondering where we could scrounge some tea


    20. A wobbly deputation gets sent down to ground level to scrounge for more

    21. One day we missed one of our fellows, a Cockney, for about two hours, and guessed he was on the "scrounge" somewhere or other


    1. Maybe they were out in the pass itself? Maybe he hardly ever ate anything that wasn’t scrounged from inglethor? “That must make life pretty hard,” was all she could think to say about it


    2. "Most things that could be sold as-is have probably already been scrounged


    3. "If I scrounged and scaved stuff out of there, how does that make you feel about me?"


    4. ” I mean any idiot could see by our uniforms which were a mish mash of different bits we had scrounged that had been cut down and were now threadbare


    5. The armory of the disciplinarium had been depleted as well, the procrastinators being issued the finest available armor and weapons, while the city folk pressed into service had been given whatever could be scrounged in the last minute


    6. I’m your brother in law, remember?” he said with a smirk and scrounged up his face from the terrible stench


    7. Adrar scrounged up some warm outer-wear for them


    8. (no, not that one!) was, and after he found out that I scrounged tickets to every regular season game, he phoned me rather than risk being seen talking to me, and said that he was making a stadium run to buy playoff tickets


    9. The roll-up had gone smoothly and, with the carpet tied in three places, it had made an easy attachment to the lightweight bamboo carrying pole that had been scrounged from one of the tents left behind when the army decamped


    10. He bunks in that scrounged up trailer of his in the revetment on the north side of runway 27

    11. they could use what they had scrounged


    12. Helmut, our third partner, scrounged some food from somewhere


    13. Two days later, Johnny hands Romero a broken piece of chocolate he scrounged from the cafeteria


    14. The have-nots scrounged daily to exist while the haves never let them forget it


    15. Over the next few weeks he scrounged a number of lengths of thin wall, 16-millimetre diameter, steel tube


    16. Scrunched inside the tight area, he then scrounged up leaves from around and used them for more cover, leaving no


    17. Greg scrounged through the bag of toiletries and pulled out a roll of toilet paper


    18. The feds followed Stacey to his parents’ home and came in while he scrounged through his closet


    19. Louie scrounged up parachute cord and went to each injured man, looping cord around him as a belt, then wrapping the rope around stationary parts of the plane


    20. In winter, he hung blankets along the infirmary walls and scrounged up charcoal to heat the rooms

    21. Knox had scrounged up government travel vouchers that would allow them to stay at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in downtown Charlotte for a reduced rate that would not cause a DoD bean counter to slash his wrists


    22. The three girls shared one-and-a-half wardrobes, Michelle running around in his old sweaters, Debby wearing what she scrounged from Michelle, and Libby in what was left: patched-up boys’ blue jeans, soiled old baseball jerseys, cheap knit dresses that Debby’s belly had stretched out


    23. So we dragged our boiler on to the end of the platform, scrounged some wood, and soon had the fire going and the water on the boil


    1. He should interrogate her on where that number came from, it included even the scrounges used only occasionally


    2. All the paper might have stopped some scrounges from reclaiming some good furniture, but there's always scrounges going thru there


    3. In a century it would be haunted by deviants, a century later, scrounges


    4. Those scrounges both lived in a nearly abandoned warehouse several stories below the office


    5. Scrounges are notably reticent and a dozen could be lurking silently on any of the strap-up that overlooked this pit


    1. Not a bad day of scrounging


    2. It isn’t your fault that your parents never had to hide in the brush living on leaves and twigs through much of their youth, followed by scrounging around trying to make a living off the rough unyielding soil of a mountainside, watching their parents age decades in years and die a miserable poverty-stricken death


    3. I looked around one more time, scrounging the darkness for a red blob of vampire hair, but all I could see was vermin, rats, stray cats and a whole animal kingdom of insects, my sign to get the hell out of there


    4. Two hours later, at 1830, Parker had divested the briefcase at Colonel Norman's office, changed his clothes in his BOQ room, and was at the Tan Son Nhut main gate scrounging a ride to downtown Saigon


    5. In an instant, he went from scrounging


    6. In fact, I distinctly remembered reading in Gary Oldenhammers' Scrounging for Grub in 11 Trillion Solar Systems: “Important! If the vast amount of pointless energy stored in even a single investment banker can fuel your spaceship, it can surely provide you with necessary sustenance in a pinch


    7. She was reduced to scrounging on the floor of her car for those last two cents!


    8. scrounging in the woods for some nuts and berries


    9. Scrounging through the ash tray, Mitch dug out enough change to call Stephanie


    10. Now, as of writing this, he’s in the kitchen scrounging up some dinner for us, but he’s moving like a slug

    11. Even while they are in debt up to their asses and scrounging to barely make ends meet: the poor of today still act and think and feel like Robber Barons


    12. But a decade later, the shooting of his best friend and the subsequent appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ to him personally would send Charlie scrounging for a Bible of his own


    13. It being a quiet sector, we were mooning and scrounging around, some on the parapet, some in the trenches, and some at the rear


    14. During a lull Gunner A——, a Londoner, like the rest of us, went "scrounging" in some nearby cottages recently abandoned by their inhabitants


    15. The mess kitchen was in darkness, and Buzzer began scrounging around


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    Synonyms for "scrounge"

    forage scrounge cadge schnorr shnorr search raid hunt overrun foray

    "scrounge" definitions

    collect or look around for (food)


    obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling