How To Use Scrounge In A Sentence
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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
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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
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MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
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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
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She scrounged around in the tool box for a tack or nail to hang the notice up with.
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I managed to scrounge some money off my dad.
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I am not a shirker, a scrounger, a beggar, nor a thief.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Homeless children scrounge for spare change, and newspapers carry ads from people offering their kidneys for cash.
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They had scrounged clothes from one another and restyled their images to look more ‘Hollywood.’
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This collection of vintage educational films (one of five volumes) was put together by Alpha Home Entertainment, a company that specializes in cheapie DVDs of olde time serials, B-Westerns, ’50s Sci-Fi, and other scratched-up old movies scrounged out of someone’s basement.
Gross, He’s Picking His Nose! : Scrubbles.net
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How can the mother get tax credits if she pays no tax as she's not working... that is a good scrounge.
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He was usually able to scrounge up enough from the empty boxes in the trash or put the bite on an unsuspecting transient, “borrowing” a cupful or two from someone who he didn't already “owe” from before.
25 Cents at a Time
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And it was scarcely to be supposed the poet of the Roisín Dubh had in mind the coming of a shoneen talking-house, a gombeen legislature scrounged and cadged for by whiskey-swilling fixers in the imperial Parliament across the sea.
At Swim, Two Boys
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Like Lessing during the 1960s, Frances is a ‘housemother’, who fills her large home with an eclectic mixture of waifs, strays and scroungers.
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And these plays are not attended by dole scroungers, Trotskyites, hopheads or peaceniks, but by the decent ordinary people of Galway.
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This creates a question of legitimacy which causes the Justices to scrounge for support.
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Most of the crew had eaten, but Kharl managed to scrounge enough bread, and some cheese, and a soft pearapple, as well as a mug of redberry.
Wellspring of Chaos
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Now that's done, I have to go toddle down to various roadside ticketing agents and see what I can scrounge up for Yo La Tengo.
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They scrounged for pine cones for the fires, and both became adept at chopping kindling.
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MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
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They scrounged up props, including one kid's chopped and lowered and louvered hot rod, if I remember correctly.
John Merrow: The Play's the Thing
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She said I was a scrounger, a ne'er-do-well, lazy, good-for-nothing, living on her taxes and making my wife go out to work.
WIDOW'S END
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It's not about the cost of materials: he scrounges and scours flea markets and online auctions for things that can apply to the tables.
Roasting Rich and Famous
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A handful of displaced residents were allowed in to scrounge through rubble for their belongings.
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He scrounged a cigarette from his roommate.
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As far as I know, the Sidearms were usually issued too officers, but enlisted men were able to scrounge them up easily enough.
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Can I scrounge a cigarette from you?
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If I'm not detaining you... I actually came on the scrounge, Liz... "He held up his briefcase.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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Williams had to scrounge enough money to get his car out of the car park.
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It would encourage scroungers not to work as the unemployed would be exempt from the charges.
The Sun
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The bathroom has a stool, sink and undersized bathtub I scrounged that is perfectly sized for the shower.
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He'd even put it in writing, and put it in writing the way all great old newspapermen used to do it, on a manual typewriter and on the back of paper scrounged from a wastebasket.
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He scrounged around in his desk drawer for a paper clip.
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He scrounged around in his desk drawer for a paper clip.
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I couldn't afford to pay my tuition, I couldn't afford my rent, and I could barely scrounge up enough money to buy food.
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It would encourage scroungers not to work as the unemployed would be exempt from the charges.
The Sun
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As things then also turned out, last night's meal flopped (don't get me started -- I think the cut of lamb the butcher gave me was 3/4 fat) and my moms 'night out is tonight, meaning that not only will I be gone but they will have to scrounge for dinner (probably a frozen Indian meal for John and mac-n-cheese for the girls).
Archive 2009-02-01
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Every man in the team was strictly enjoined to "scrounge" any scrap of wood he could find en route, and it was a common sight to see a driver suddenly hop off his horse, dart across the road triumphantly to seize a stick he had spotted, after which he rushed after his team and scrambled into the saddle again, the horses meanwhile plodding patiently along.
With Our Army in Palestine
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Homeless children scrounge for spare change, and newspapers carry ads from people offering their kidneys for cash.
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One neighbor commented that she felt like a "scrounge", I told her that she wasn't scrounging but "re-purposing" my old hangers and the look of relief that came across her face was amazing.
Kim Callahan: From Helping Vietnam Veterans to Helping My Neighbors
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I managed to scrounge the cupboards for all the ‘least likely to react ‘unperfumed stuff I could find and had a long soak in the bath and feel somewhat human again.’
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He works as a factory food packer and hit back at critics who say his countryfolk are scroungers.
The Sun
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He scrounged around in his desk drawer for a paper clip.
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He says the children selling all manner of trinkets are his friends and uses some kind of innate child-communication to invite them to play with the few toys he has, as well as whatever else they can scrounge from the grounds.
Chet of Arabia
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He scrounged them up in the Municipal Archives on Chambers Street in Manhattan, the address of which he has committed to memory.
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The dad denied his family were scroungers and vowed to support his daughter and new granddaughter.
The Sun
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Until reintroduced by the CJB, we had to scrounge in Salvation Army Stores and junk shops searching for scratchy old copies of original recordings.
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Jack is thick with Joxer, his fellow toper and toady, an even worse parasite than the Captain off whom he scrounges.
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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
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Like the queen, he doesn't carry cash, so the billionaire has to scrounge cab fare from colleagues.
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As a reviewer I don't get sent everything I ask for and so I scrounge quite a bit - but only for the films I really, really want.
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She expresses her desire to send him as much money as she can scrounge up.
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I managed to scrounge the materials to build a shed.
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I can have a scrounge around for you as I'm not going to bed but don't have anything really important to do at the moment.
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Shopping for an end of world vehicle, but don't want a big honkin 'V8 that greedily suck down the last of the go-juice you can scrounge?
Ride Lust - Motion + Mobility
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It happened to someone else when it was revealed that he hadn't been taking showers, and the Commander had pronounced him a "scrounge".
Autism Hub
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And it was scarcely to be supposed the poet of the Roisín Dubh had in mind the coming of a shoneen talking-house, a gombeen legislature scrounged and cadged for by whiskey-swilling fixers in the imperial Parliament across the sea.
At Swim, Two Boys
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Young, confused, and seeking my own voice, I needed not only all the helpful examples I could scrounge up but also a little-known source of readily stealable graphic ideas.
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She scrounged together the money, but then saw the most gorgeous pair of boots on sale - a steal at $400.
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He thinks that people who receive state benefits are scroungers.
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Well, as it's one of the things is 'consistancy' and seeing as you have the ability to volunteer all over the place but not work I call into question everything you have to say on the subject as you're a scrounger, playing the system, who could work but chooses not to, and as such should be held to account at every opportunity.
Army Rumour Service
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That brother of yours is always on the scrounge.
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On that occasion she relentlessly scrounged, albeit in a sweetly demure fashion, cigarettes from all and sundry, suggesting a certain profligacy towards other people's property.
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I will have a scrounge around today and see if I can find any more.
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Is it to shame scroungers or make them rich fast?
The Sun
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Families crowd into tiny, ramshackle homes and scrounge for food as well as soap, paper and other basics.
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She scrounged around in the tool box for a tack or nail to hang the notice up with.
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Not only do you not have to scrounge around for installation disks (and hope they are not damaged or lost), the installation is also wicked fast because you're reading from the hard disk instead of optical media.
Separate Data From Windows On A Standalone Partition | Lifehacker Australia
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Chapters had to scrounge to find any of my books, but scared up a few that also sold out.
Montreal WorldCon Day…um, what day is it again?
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I managed to scrounge the materials to build a shed.
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After breakfast, she sat in the front room where equatorial sun slanted in brightest through lacquered lattices to read every last thing she could scrounge from the one biblioteca that sold English print.
BRASIL AS A GIRL
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Peter never buys anything - he just scrounges .
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They do tend to kind of scrounge to where they want; they go to the low seats," Finke said.
Iowa City Press-Citizen - Hawkeye Sports
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Forget all that, forget any sort of reasonable discussion, let's just call them thieving scroungers again.
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Is it to shame scroungers or make them rich fast?
The Sun
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Public servants are not work-shy scroungers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The new government promised to clamp down on welfare scroungers.
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He works as a factory food packer and hit back at critics who say his countryfolk are scroungers.
The Sun
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She scrounged around in the tool box for a tack or nail to hang the notice up with.
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He scrounged around in his desk drawer for a paper clip.
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It would encourage scroungers not to work as the unemployed would be exempt from the charges.
The Sun
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If I'm not detaining you... I actually came on the scrounge, Liz... "He held up his briefcase.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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It was in fact, an official scrounge, all expenses paid.
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The less privileged instinctively know this and that's why even your bai will somehow scrimp and scrounge but prefer to send her child to an ‘English medium’ school.
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The prodigal ex-hippie who returns to an Essex village after blagging his way through eight years on the scrounge is still as charming and feckless as ever.
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I had an empty Apple Snail shell scrounged from my long-suffering dealer for just such an experiment.
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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
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He survived by selling scrap metal he scrounged from construction sites for 60 cents per kilo.
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‘Yes, I was hoping you would scrounge something up for me,’ Anya grinned.
