Explore Scrounge through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like forage or hunt. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Scrounge meaning
- To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean.
- To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another.
Using Scrounge
- The main meaning on this page is: To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean. | To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another.
- Useful related words include: forage, hunt, run, hunt down.
- In the example corpus, scrounge often appears in combinations such as: to scrounge, scrounge up, scrounge for.
Context around Scrounge
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scrounge
- In this selection, "scrounge" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hospitals, adults, money, together and enough stand out and add context to how "scrounge" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include able to scrounge out 22 and able to scrounge up enough. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scrounge" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scrounge
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Belmont House had to scrounge to find masks. (8 words)
You won't need to scrounge in its library to find inspiring murder, mayhem, and madness. (16 words)
As the two scuffle their way through a harsh winter, they scrounge enough money to escape to sunny Florida. (19 words)
She and her husband joined the tens of thousands of people who are currently living on any unoccupied land they can find in North Kivu’s lakeside capital, sheltering under whatever they can scrounge together to keep the wind and sun off their backs. (44 words)
Sour Party follows Gwen and James, two broke, flailing 30-somethings on a quest to scrounge money from a collection of low lives and failed artists in an attempt to show up to Gwen’s sister’s baby shower with a proper gift. (43 words)
It took a decade and a half of cajoling, $25 million in cash, 25 million acres of land and an embarrassing political scandal before Macdonald was able to scrounge up enough interest to complete his national dream. (37 words)
Example sentences (17)
Puzzles are an important way to scrounge up a little bit of Adventure EXP and Stellar Jade, and you can find the location of puzzles you’ve passed by while checking your overworld map.
Rough-and-tumble, messy, loud girls had to scrounge for representation, most of which took the form of one-dimensional sidekicks, stereotypically (and usually offensively) gay-coded characters, or traumatized broken birds with paper-thin development.
Sour Party follows Gwen and James, two broke, flailing 30-somethings on a quest to scrounge money from a collection of low lives and failed artists in an attempt to show up to Gwen’s sister’s baby shower with a proper gift.
She and her husband joined the tens of thousands of people who are currently living on any unoccupied land they can find in North Kivu’s lakeside capital, sheltering under whatever they can scrounge together to keep the wind and sun off their backs.
As a way to scrounge up some extra cash, Guevara started his own mobile car washing system on the weekends.
As the two scuffle their way through a harsh winter, they scrounge enough money to escape to sunny Florida.
Belmont House had to scrounge to find masks.
Even as hospitals scrounge for professionals from the industry to treat the burgeoning numbers of people with the coronavirus, tens of thousands are on the sidelines as elective procedures, diagnostics and appointments are canceled or postponed.
Phase one is the “respectable” phase, where he insists on recounts and uses the time to scrounge for evidence of actual fraud in hopes of making something happen in court.
You won't need to scrounge in its library to find inspiring murder, mayhem, and madness.
The Bulls were only able to scrounge out 22 overs with the ball before the match was abandoned for day one.
The entire scene is beautifully crafted as not only do the Guardians individually have to scrounge for spare parts (including a man's robotic leg) while avoiding the prison guards and their blasters.
A downtown church and local developer won’t have to scrounge up extra money for decorative amenities when Lake Street undergoes construction, the Eau Claire City Council agreed Tuesday.
It took a decade and a half of cajoling, $25 million in cash, 25 million acres of land and an embarrassing political scandal before Macdonald was able to scrounge up enough interest to complete his national dream.
Made on a reported budget of approximately Rs 10 crore, it’s only managed to scrounge up Rs 4.74 crore net.
Others have brought blocks, boardgames like Monopoly and tiny cars, playing while the adults scrounge firewood for the stoves and try to feed babies suffering malnutrition.
The six years that the mine has not been operating have been hell because we now have to scrounge for a living.
Common combinations with scrounge
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to scrounge 13×
- scrounge up 5×
- scrounge for 5×