scavenging
Speech parts
1. scavenging - Noun
2. scavenging - Adjective
3. scavenging - Verb
Meaning
scavenging
present participle of scavenge
scavenging (not comparable)
That eats carrion
scavenging (plural scavengings)
(gerund) The act of searching through refuse for useful material.
Our scavengings at the rubbish dump often yielded items of value.
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Examples
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
I don't know how they reproduce!.. They are a scavenging people.
[Director James] Cameron manhandles the real story, scavenging it for his own puny narrative purposes. It's a film made with boorish confidence and zero sensitivity, big and dumb and hulking.
I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life.
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.