Sentence examples for scrounge around from inspiring English sources

Please, he asked, scrounge around for a few old police bulletproof vests and mail them to me.

"Needs emerge, and users scrounge around and find something," Mr. Von Hippel said, "or tools and technologies emerge, and people figure out how to use them".

I'd like to see Facebook itself step in and fill this need for developers so they don't have to scrounge around for extra computational and storage capacity (after all, there is a waiting list for Amazon's services now).

The man would mainly hang out by the fences, but sometimes he would venture onto the grounds to scrounge around in the rough.

"The islands down there are pretty isolated — hunks of rock, no trees, windswept — but if you scrounge around you can find some slime molds," Stephenson said.

You had to scrounge around for a bottle of port, then there'd be a bottle of scotch, a couple of bottles of South African red wine, some liqueurs – and so you'd get drunk after three different drinks.

"They're not scrounging around, though.

Despite his "30 years of scrounging around in clay bins," he said, he had never heard of about half of the auction's consignors.

IT took some scrounging around before Jason Binn finally found a pair of La Perla panties, but at least Dr. Ruth Westheimer didn't leave his party frustrated.

Scrounging around in a cupboard stuffed with three decades' worth of papers and academic debris, Glyn Peters, a recently widowed landscape historian, discovers an envelope marked "Don't Open — Destroy" in his late wife's handwriting.

The site may have been purchased by another part of News Corp. Editor's Update: More scrounging around has confirmed that the deal indeed is about to be officially announced.