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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of scavenge.

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Examples

  • The days were getting warmer by then, and he slept in the brush along the river, shaved and washed himself there, and ate for breakfast whatever he had scavenged from the mercado the day before.

    Alba 2009

  • The days were getting warmer by then, and he slept in the brush along the river, shaved and washed himself there, and ate for breakfast whatever he had scavenged from the mercado the day before.

    Alba 2009

  • The days were getting warmer by then, and he slept in the brush along the river, shaved and washed himself there, and ate for breakfast whatever he had scavenged from the mercado the day before.

    Alba 2009

  • The floor was nested with cushions that I had scavenged from a dump on Biashara Street.

    Excerpt: Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan 2008

  • These marbles — scavenged from the ruins of the Parthenon and imported to London by Lord

    Notes on 'The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece' 2006

  • The communication panels on the walls were scavenged from a Canadian destroyer; the desk lamps are from Ikea.

    July 2005 2005

  • The cultural critic Julian Dibbell had it just about right when he theorized the weblog as postmodern wunderkammer — an idiosyncratic jumble of found objects (in this case, ideas and images, facts and fictions scavenged from the global mediastream) that “reflects our own attempts to assimilate the glut of immaterial data loosed upon us by the ‘discovery’ of the networked world.”

    Boing Boing: December 19, 2004 - December 25, 2004 Archives 2004

  • It would have required two spacewalkers to fill the hole with a combination of heavy tools and metal scraps scavenged from the crew compartment, and to supplement that mass with an ice bag shaped to the wing's leading edge.

    Columbia's Last Flight 2003

  • It would have required two spacewalkers to fill the hole with a combination of heavy tools and metal scraps scavenged from the crew compartment, and to supplement that mass with an ice bag shaped to the wing's leading edge.

    Columbia's Last Flight 2003

  • The latter I filled with isopropyl alcohol and attached with a piece of surgical tubing to the intake of a cooling compressor I had scavenged from a broken refrigerator.

    Robert B. Laughlin - Autobiography 1999

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