Sample Sentences for
forage
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  • My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal.  (source)
    forage = search for and gather -- often food and provisions
  • After our show, humans forage through the stores.  (source)
    forage = search for and gather desired things
  • I don't want to have to forage every meal.  (source)
    forage = to search for and gather
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  • I have no clue what's out there beyond these woods and the two-mile stretch of interstate I hike every week to forage for supplies.  (source)
    forage = search for and gather -- often food and provisions
  • During spring and summer—the most strenuous periods of foraging—a worker bee, as a rule, does not live more than four or five weeks…  (source)
    foraging = searching for and gathering food
  • Unlike Dobby, she had obviously not foraged for clothes.  (source)
    foraged = searched for and gathered -- often food and provisions
  • They're constant foragers.  (source)
    foragers = searchers for food
  • My sisters Ruth May and Leah: forager and hunter.†  (source)
  • This miserable strain confines me to my bed; but Mousqueton forages, and brings in provisions.†  (source)
  • Part of the saloon-keeper's business was to offer a home and refreshments to beggars in exchange for the proceeds of their foragings; and was there any one else in the whole city who would do this—would the victim have done it himself?†  (source)
  • Because the prisoners had to eat something, the Bulgarians allowed them to forage away from camp, but if they returned after dark they were shot.  (source)
    forage = search for and gather -- often food and provisions
  • She remembers foraging for food—cold hot dogs and toast—when her mother wasn't home, and sometimes when she was.  (source)
    foraging = searching for and gathering -- often food and provisions
  • They foraged the local factories for pieces of wood, metal, cinder blocks and other materials that might improve it.  (source)
    foraged = searched for and gathered -- often food and provisions
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