Used in a Sentence

scavenging

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for scavenging.

Editorial note

This happened with MSC Napoli in 2007 - there were stories of people scavenging motorbikes from containers!

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Quick take

That eats carrion

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of scavenging gathered in one view.

adjective

That eats carrion

noun

(gerund) The act of searching through refuse for useful material.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for scavenging.

noun

(gerund) The act of searching through refuse for useful material.

Example sentences

1

This happened with MSC Napoli in 2007 - there were stories of people scavenging motorbikes from containers!

2

Every single morning there's people scavenging all the bins in the neighborhood in a systematic way.

3

The power scavenging circuit looks to not be the same frequency as the communications radio circuit due to antenna size differences.

4

Regarding scavenging shipwrecks and wrecking -- 99% of that was fiction by Daphne du Maurier.

5

That rather than hitting the pleasure center it hit an area related to scavenging?

6

The image of hunger in America today differs markedly from Depression-era images of the gaunt-faced unemployed scavenging for food on urban streets.

7

The lab I did part of a summer's research was working with the enterobactin iron scavenging mechanism in E.

8

That's more like putting it mildly, they were sort of forced generations after generations to do absolutely despicable stuff like scavenging human waste.

9

Any society capbable of doing so would be far beyond celestial scavenging for a few trinkets, in the same manner that our global economy is beyond scavenging for artifacts from brazilian tribal rituals, historical curiousity notwithstanding.

10

They say it's energy scavenging - like passive NFC tags essentially.

11

I know what it's not: applicable to Cornwall re scavenging shipwrecks and the like.

12

Lobsters and Cockroaches are both nocturnal, omnivorous, scavenging, arthropods.

Quote examples

1

When our ancestors went scavenging for berries, for example, sour meant “not yet ripe,” while bitter meant “alert—poison!” There is absolutely no basis/source for this.

2

"argues that sleep evolved to optimize animals’ use of time, keeping them safe and hidden when the hunting, fishing or scavenging was scarce and perhaps risky"...

3

Definitely true, but if we just classify "self-replicating molecules" as life, they become just another coexisting organism in the mix of billions, perhaps scavenging some form of energy that's unsuitable to larger forms.

4

"It didn’t really occur to me that most employed twenty-somethings weren’t scavenging free food from lecture halls." I used to do the same thing as a postdoc at UC Berkeley, while trying to provide for a wife and kid.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use scavenging in a sentence?

This happened with MSC Napoli in 2007 - there were stories of people scavenging motorbikes from containers!

What does scavenging mean?

That eats carrion

What part of speech is scavenging?

scavenging is commonly used as adjective, noun.