Sentence examples for scavenging materials from inspiring English sources

People lived in small frame houses and in a few last underground homes, scavenging materials by dog team from abandoned whaling and military sites.

In other words, life, just as it is in the neighborhoods where the artisans grew up scavenging materials to build elaborate tiny models.

Our correspondent Alex Miller visited a construction site near Altamira Square, where protesters were scavenging materials to use as weapons and to build barricades.

Twist passed the delivery entrance to Murray's Cheese Shop, where he recently scavenged materials for "Arias".

Forced to forgo school as a teenager to help his family survive, Mr. Kamkwamba scavenged materials to build a windmill that took electricity and clean water to his village for the first time.

Photo: At a Kabul site where a building was being razed yesterday, residents scavenged material for their own use.

Due to mechanical and optical requirements, barrier films typically consist of polymer blends or multilayer films of the scavenging material and an inert supporting polymer.

Now, many of the Gramaloteros who have come back scratch out a living scavenging building materials from the wreckage.

In the early 1930s, as he wandered through the secondhand bookstores and antique shops in Lower Manhattan scavenging for materials, Cornell stumbled upon a French agricultural yearbook from 1911.

It was then that he began scavenging the material for Son of Town Hall, a 40-foot raft made of discarded timber, foam bricks and plastic bottles lashed together, basketlike, with 3,000 feet of rope abandoned by Con Edison.

They're convenient resources that I can scavenge for materials in 2014.