Sentence examples for Would forage from inspiring English sources

One of the most valuable slaves on many plantations was the huntsman, who would forage in the woods every morning and afternoon.

This is rather a surprise as many of these extinct flying reptiles (often incorrectly considered dinosaurs, or the ancestors of birds) were regular ocean-going animals that would forage around, over, and probably also in, the water.

But Mr Sillitoe was a product of those sooty red-brick terraces, where he remembered his mother, beaten yet again by his father, holding her head over a bucket so the blood didn't run on the carpet; where he would forage in tips for bottles to claim the deposit, or pick flowers from the park to sell.

The stock ducks would forage for greenery and insects, supplemented by greaves (the residue left after the rendering of animal fat).

The conversation keeps coming back to food — the plants for which his family would forage when making soup, or a dish of seasoned tofu with marinated rice that he can't seem to replicate here.

One of the most impressive private collections of human skeletal specimens belongs to Ryan Matthew Cohn, who can trace his interest in bone collecting back to his childhood in upstate New York, when he would "forage through the woods searching for artifacts to add to my already growing collection of natural ephemera and osteological remnants".

"I'd go ashore once a week in an old Novie shrimper and we'd forage," he said.

But I would make them these delicious vegan dinners from stuff we'd forage, and we'd sit around and talk about nutrition and literature, and how we were going to change the world.

We'd eat the fish in a carpaccio, with chilli and herbs we'd foraged.

But it was hard to feel the creep of modernization the night I returned to the campground from the Hummingbird Pub (thanks to a ride from my tablemate) and walked under bright starlight to the same beach I'd foraged that morning.

Money was always tight and it is said the Days would often forage for useful items at the town dump.