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How to use scavenger in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Scavenger means someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things. Example: “A scavenger picked through the rubbish heap.”

Examples of scavenger by meaning

nounSomeone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.

  • A scavenger picked through the rubbish heap.

nounAn animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.

  • Vultures are natural scavengers.

More sentences with scavenger

  • This is not to say that the larch are gluttons, greedsome water scavengers totally out of control.2013, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Tim Folger, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013. From the entry greedsome
  • In addition to predators, the cavernicolous beetles are scavengers and opportunistic saprophiles.2012, William B. White, David C. Culver, Encyclopedia of Caves, page 260. From the entry saprophile
  • A new scavenger hunt is based on the superpopular High School Musical movies.2009, Matt Hannafin, Heidi Sarna, Frommer's Cruises and Ports of Call 2010. From the entry superpopular
  • Histerids are scavengers and predators in decomposing organic material such as animal carcasses.2004, David P. Rees, Insects of Stored Products, CSIRO Publishing, page 72. From the entry histerid
  • Hyenas are scavengers, which means they eat food left behind by other animals and people.2002, Maskew Miller Longman, Find Out about African Animals, page 28. From the entry hyena
  • Typically a scavenger, the bat star will also attack small white sea urchins.1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 78. From the entry bat star
  • The siafus, together with the hyena, jackal and vulture, are the great scavengers of Kenya.1957, William W. Baldwin, Mau Mau Man-hunt, page 216. From the entry siafu
  • They are mostly harmless scavengers or nuisances or strigilators and are classified by Wheeler as being: a.1942, Edward Oliver Essig, College Entomology, page 672. From the entry strigilator
  • A human vulture, God sent thee The world's great scavenger to be.1900, Johnstone, Julian E, Songs of Sun and Shadow, →OCLC. From the entry scumber
  • In the canopy, friendly birds (not the desperate, demented scavengers that sometimes overflew the plains) chirped and laboured on their nests.2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 193. From the entry overfly
  • The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food.2000, William H. Libaw, How we got to be human: subjective minds with objective bodies, page 277. From the entry sapiens
  • But the striped carnivores were not scavengers; They were hunters.2000, Alan Dean Foster, A Triumph of Souls. From the entry hexapod
  • Because they are scavengers in a semiarid ecosystem where carrion is often limited, brown hyenas naturally occur in small numbers.1984, Mark Owens, Delia Owens, Cry of the Kalahari, page 324. From the entry brown hyena
  • It’s the ultimate capitalist scavenger hunt!2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V.…. From the entry circuitry
  • The existence of millipedes, centipedes, insects, and spiders along-side the first tetrapods sustained a robust ecosystem in which most animals were predators or scavengers.2008, Thom Holmes, March Onto Land: The Silurian Period to the Middle Triassic Epoch, page 58. From the entry centipede
  • Neutrals — scavengers that are not mimetic: mites; collembolens; staphylinid, trichopterygid, chrysomelid, and scarabæid beetles; phorid and syrphid flies; and caterpillars of certain microlepidopterans.1942, Edward Oliver Essig, College Entomology, page 672. From the entry strigilator
  • Man was entirely at the mercy of nature—a mere scavenger who eked out a miserable existence as a food-gatherer and an eater of shell-fish.1928, Christopher Dawson, The Age of the Gods, page 49. From the entry nature
  • Through the advent of air travel the amazing family of upside-down catfishes has been introduced, and is now providing us with several species of amusing and interesting scavengers.1963, Derek McInerny, Geoffrey Gerard, “Synodontidæ”, in All About Tropical Fish, new edition, London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, →OCLC…. From the entry upside-down catfish

Meaning of scavenger

  1. noun Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
  2. noun An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
  3. noun A street sweeper.

Full definition of scavenger

Questions about scavenger in a sentence

How do you use scavenger in a sentence?
Scavenger is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A scavenger picked through the rubbish heap.”
What is a short sentence with scavenger?
“Vultures are natural scavengers.”
What does scavenger mean?
Scavenger means someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.

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