scrounge

How To Use scrounge In A Sentence

• He's come back to scrounge a meal and a bed, and he'll be off with what he's managed to steal before daybreak. THE BLACK OPAL
• The man who wants everyone - thats everyone not just some workshy feckless scrounger who has been unemployed for fifteen years - aka a miner shafter from the first time around - to work for their dole. The Guardian World News
• MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
• Consequently, while her owners were tight enough with the ducat to outfit her with second-hand gear, they were wise enough to scrounge the very best of second-hand gear. April 5th, 2009
• She scrounged around in the tool box for a tack or nail to hang the notice up with.
• I managed to scrounge some money off my dad.
• I am not a shirker, a scrounger, a beggar, nor a thief. Times, Sunday Times
• Many are afraid that if they lose their job, they fall prey to all of the ravaging forces in Zimbabwean society — they join the 70-80 percent of the country that's unemployed, waiting in bank queues, trying to somehow scrounge up food. Life in Mugabe-ville
• Homeless children scrounge for spare change, and newspapers carry ads from people offering their kidneys for cash.
• They had scrounged clothes from one another and restyled their images to look more ‘Hollywood.’