How to Use scrounge in a Sentence

scrounge

verb

• We scrounged around for firewood.
• I managed to scrounge enough money for a bus ticket.
• We managed to scrounge some firewood.
• He's always scrounging off his friends instead of paying for things himself.
• The family would scrounge up the 50 cents a week for the lessons.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2021
• The young and the poor used to have to pinch their pennies for years to scrounge up enough money to invest.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2017
• Where the snow did stick, adults and children alike scrounged up enough to make snowmen.
  — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• Amid this gambling feast, the MLS is scrounging for crumbs.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2018
• Thus, school districts across the Golden State are scrounging to keep the lights on.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
• Adel dropped out of school to scrounge for plastic along with his brothers.
  — Heidi Levine, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2019
• Surely, if a YouTuber could scrounge up the funds for the tools, Apple could, too.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 26 July 2023
• Most hotels can scrounge one up for you, the Hyatt in Lake Tahoe even gave us one to keep.
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 17 Jan. 2017
• My days were spent trying to scrounge enough to eat, to help care for my siblings, to serve the kingdom.
  — Anna Lebaron, Good Housekeeping, 1 Mar. 2017
• In the case of contracts that have already been signed, schools will have to scrounge up the money somehow.
  — Ben Nuckols, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• In the fear of losing and having to scrounge for money to get back home from South Korea.
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• As a play-caller, McCarthy has scratched and clawed and scrounged to go 3-4 without Rodgers.
  — Christopher Harris, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• Back in town, Wanda and Pietro are wandering the streets while the boys scrounge for sugar.
  — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2021
• Absent additional money from the state or the city, the Trust has long had to scrounge for funds.
  — Charles V. Bagli and Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017
• That’s the only section that is open, a move intended to scrounge up sales.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
• The large, constricting black pine snake prefers to lounge in open pinelands and scrounge around for a meal of mice, rats, squirrels, birds or eggs.
  — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 12 June 2017
• People were scrounging for clothes and hanging them out to dry to have something to wear.
  — Rosa Flores, CNN, 9 Sep. 2019
• Hendrickson scrounged up a Bible and the new president swore on it.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2024
• Some are just scrounged out closets and out of parents' desk drawers.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• Mingma Sherpa dangled a $3,000 payout for a few days of work and scrounged up about a dozen men.
  — Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• Taxes may increase as Democrats scrounge for cash to pay for pensions.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2017
• McCormick's campaign, meanwhile, has been waging a fight in court to scrounge for votes that might help him close the gap with Oz.
  — CBS News, 27 May 2022
• About two dozen scrounged through supplies in the cafeteria looking for food in the morning.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Goodchild grew up in a tar-paper shack, sleeping on a mattress scrounged from a dump.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• The developer is now scrambling to find a way to scrounge up enough cash to make its debt payments.
  — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
• All had left their homes and scrounged for food and braved the rain and the chill to make it to the US border crossing at Tijuana, Mexico.
  — Michelle Krupa, CNN, 1 May 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024