How to Use scavenger in a Sentence

scavenger

noun
Definition of scavengernext
  • Print up a list of clues that lead the hunters from egg to egg, scavenger-hunt-style.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2020
  • And there, soon enough, would be the carcass, swollen in the sun, too much meat even for the scavengers to keep up with.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The carcass was burned to make sure the virus didn’t spread to any scavengers, Beckmen said.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2023
  • The map will be useful June 18 during the Horcrux Hunt and the scavenger hunt.
    — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 7 June 2017
  • And Star Wars has its share of desert planet scavengers.
    — Ani Bundel, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Pappas has contended that the Land Bank has thrown a wrench in the scavenger sale through the years.
    — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • So in came the scavengers, to buy those mines for cheap, with vague promises to renew them.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 9 July 2019
  • The bags were dropped into Yaquina Bay where scavengers set about cleaning the bones.
    — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Weird Al Yankovic has been a scavenger at pop’s margins for four decades.
    — Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Here’s the menu: Tricks of the Snapping Trade Snapping turtles are both scavengers and hunters.
    — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
  • This coin-sized scavenger was found in the Marianas Trench.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The birds, which are scavengers, are renowned for their massive wingspan.
    — Claire Hao, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The whale’s eye was still intact, even though the eyes are usually one of the first body parts to get picked apart by scavengers.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Tiger sharks are known for voracious appetites and are some of the ocean’s most avid scavengers.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024
  • This is an acorn worm, a scavenger of seafloor sediment that the researchers found in the North Atlantic.
    — Discover Magazine, 7 July 2010
  • On weekends, the family likes to take trips to the park, go swimming, ride bikes and have scavenger hunts.
    — Jane Hanson, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Police can be seen chasing scavengers through the streets.
    — Todd Pitman, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2018
  • In the red zone, Zoom parties and at-home scavenger hunts are suggested.
    — Gary Dinges, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
  • On the left, a figure of a Tusken Raider is brandishing a weapon known as a gaffi stick, while on the right is a figure of a Jawa, a scavenger of the desert.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The researchers refer to the giant isopod as a scavenger.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Raccoons are brazen scavengers with a talent for mind games.
    — John Hodgman, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Let's Roam offers themed scavenger hunts in cities around the U.S. teach the history of landmarks.
    — Mallory Abreu, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 July 2021
  • The lots were acquired as part of the 2017 biannual Cook County tax scavenger sale.
    — Corilyn Shropshire, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
  • Think about the scavenger bird and images of disease and decay soon follow.
    — Gertrude Kitongo, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
  • There was also a photo scavenger hunt among the challenges.
    — Gary Curreri, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 May 2017
  • The wreck of the submarine USS Perch has disappeared, a victim of scavengers.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
  • The couple revealed the news to their family through a scavenger hunt with the younger Duggar siblings.
    — Christina Dugan, PEOPLE.com, 8 July 2017
  • But that approach is failing as the number of scavengers declines and the amount of household waste rises.
    — Michael Holtz, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2018
  • In India, vultures are known to be extremely efficient scavengers, eating nearly all of a carcass less than an hour after finding it.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Those traits proved to be bad news for predators and scavengers that feed on rodents, with researchers and regulators compiling extensive evidence that rodenticides were killing a wide range of animals.
    — Bydina Fine Maron, science.org, 10 July 2024

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