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How to use scavenging in a sentence

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Most newer cryosurgical units are equipped with a scavenging port from which the gas is exhausted.
The radical scavenging mechanism postulated above could, therefore, be another mechanism of action.
It's tough flying when the beak is frozen and tough scavenging for white bread on frosty grass.
She dressed in dirty rags, wandered aimlessly in the streets, scavenging garbage for food.
This fish obviously earns its living grubbing about the bottom and scavenging.
However, the possibility of Andrewsarchus hunting or scavenging in or near ancient rivers has not been completely ruled out.
So they're out scavenging metal from any place, from heaps of old vehicles.
It was scavenging for food, eating any hapless tiny creatures it came upon.
Like vultures scavenging for the last morsel of meat from the carcass, they descended on anyone who looked like they might know something.
There's probably some animal scavenging on bodies at sea and it's going to be very difficult to get those bodies back.
Wheeler is a mudlark, an orphan aged about 10, scavenging a living on the banks of the Thames in London.
Yet their scavenging clears up immense quantities of carrion, and we should be grateful, if not admiring.
A pack of feral dogs lived among the heaps of dirt for a time, scavenging among empty beer cans and shopping trolleys.
Experts believe the extinct birds were meat-eaters because their beaks resemble those of predatory eagles and scavenging vultures.
You will normally spot them scavenging at the edge of the reef for bits of loose weed and other debris.
Abalone does not have a blood-clotting mechanism, and even if slightly damaged it will continue to bleed until found by scavenging whelks.
They were always scavenging for the latest hint of gossip as if they were ravenous animals on the trail of a wounded deer.
Thus they had to acquire their meat largely by scavenging the kills of other animals.
Placing food scraps in sealed trash receptacles also will help discourage scavenging activities.
Especially in his final years, Evans often went on scavenging hunts, wresting all kinds of street signs from their rightful places.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is a familiar figure in most of the towns and villages where its scavenging is of the greatest use.
The Haddis proper never do sweeping or scavenging work, which are, in some places, done by Rellis.
It was there in the howl of the scavenging camp dogs, seeking, in their prowling pack, that which the daylight denied them.
It should be said also that in New York an enormous amount of scavenging is paid for privately besides.
One of these scavenging birds was seen to be carrying a long object, like an eel, in its mouth.
Obstruction of the contractor or local authority in scavenging the streets or in removal of refuse, 5, or less.
They had, in order to be consistent and to talk big about morality, to include novels in their scheme of scavenging.
They do scavenging work, and eat the refuse food thrown away by people from the leaf plate after a meal.
And he said while most big cats would instinctively hunt, many turned to scavenging because it was easier.
Farming and animal husbandry replaced scavenging, hunting, and foraging.
I wasn't always a ragpicker, scavenging for bits and pieces of theory that I could parlay into some publications somewhere.
Dalits often survive by scavenging and doing menial jobs while living apart from upper castes such as Brahmans.
You know it's against the law scavenging coal, boys,' Peter Plod called.
Misra says scavenging is an essential civil and economic activity.
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