Sentences with phrase «by scrounging»

We started by scrounging up every last piece of scrap wood we could get our hands on.

Speaking of inventory, you can now restore health by scrounging for ingredients and cooking — no more picking up hearts.

My goal is to bring every single person that reads this epic list of social media wanderlust - inducing brilliance, at least a handful of brand new Profiles, travel blogs and wanderers to their attention, by scrounging the very corners of the Twitter Earth to find these travel tweeters.

Still, if you're not finding thousands of dollars in deductions for things like student loan interest or mortgage interest or charitable contributions, you're not going to likely reduce your tax bill at all by scrounging up a few more of them.

Not exact matches

Undeterred, Walton would scrounge wood so as to be able to read by the fire.

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

Using lumber scrounged from pallets, plus a few rugs and canvas scraps, they tack together a vestibule for an 18 - by -32-foot tent that 16 family members will share.

Determined to scrounge up funds for the renovation of Yale's dilapidated aquatics complex, Moses first created a «Minor Sports Association» to pool the resources of athletic programs left strapped for cash by the football - obsessed administration.

You boss is wack too because he doesn't hold you to account and does not hold himself to account by not answering why under his stewardship a trophy winning club is now scrounging for a EL trophy when it used to win major domestic honours in the past.

Over recent months, the Conservatives and their supporters in the press have relentlessly put the case that we are being beset by a zombie army of benefit - scrounging, job - stealing aliens.

A new Compass pamphlet cheekily reclaims the Osborne lexicon, blasting «scrounging» employers whose low pay is topped up by benefits, and corporate «shirkers» who dodge their tax.

He has perfected his art by trial, error, and creative scrounging.

He adds that as a result of the discoveries, «The traditional vision of some mass of hapless lemmings — scrounging for whatever they can pinch from the side of a street, or huddled around a bowl of gruel — needs to be replaced by a higher fare and standard of living, at least for the urbanites in Pompeii.

As small omnivores and herbivores, Captorhinus and its relatives had to scrounge for food while avoiding being preyed upon by large meat - eating amphibians and ancient relatives of mammals.

Let's hope I can scrounge something up by this evening!

Travel by foot and by raft down a procedurally - generated river as you scrounge for resources, craft tools, remedy afflictions, evade the vicious wildlife, and most importantly, stay ahead of the coming rains.

Morally corrupt, Constantine attempts to scrounge up bail money by duping his unaware girlfriend Corey (Leigh) into ponying up thousands of dollars with her mother's credit card.

By unlocking a single Safe House, the hours of fun will not be cut short because you spent too many hours scrounging around for that pair of gloves that simply refuses to appear.

TPB Written by DUSTIN WEAVER & GERRY DUGGAN Penciled by DUSTIN WEAVER Cover by DUSTIN WEAVER Anwen Bakian's family lives in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, scrounging for food and avoiding giant carnivorous bugs.

No studio wanted to touch it initially, so Hitchcock scrounged for financing by himself.

Scrounging in the afterglow of Olympic glory, he is approached by multi-millionaire John du Pont (Carrell) to coach a privately funded wrestling team on the grounds of his luxuriant Pennsylvania estate.

A new down payment study by Generation Squeeze suggests it will take an average full - time wage earner ($ 47,178) 23 years to scrounge up for a 20 % down payment on a house in Metro Vancouver.

In fact, the only way to teach dogs not to scrounge or worry at food in your hand is by using food in training.

Creamsicle's journey in our Help Me Heal Program began when she was found scrounging for food outside of a dumpster in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Warren County, N.Y. Suffering from multiple fractures in her left hind limb, a nearly severed tail, and deep lacerations on her body, road rash presumably as a result of being hit by a car, this resilient 7 - month - old kitten was in dire need of extensive medical attention.

Pulled from the streets of Tijuana by an independent rescuer, Dwayne's most recent past included desperate scrounging for food while cruel local residents (disgusted by his deformities) threw scalding hot water and stones at him.

T+L has scrounged the world for the best hotels by shore or harbor, white sand or dramatic cliff, remote seascape or lively cityscape.

Your weapons can also be customized at various merchants along the way, allowing you to chuck on scopes, silencers and even aiming lasers to improve performance, though arguably being able to do this does take away somewhat from the sensation that you're supposed to be just scraping by in the metro, scrounging what weapons you can wherever you can.

At first you might be sceptical, passing it off as just another MMO in the hundreds to scrounge off the slim subscriber pickings left behind by Warcraft, but what lies beneath the surface is something that could change the genre for good.

Using a block wall or bomb can keep some of the horde at bay, using the taunt can lower the aggression meter, and then the robot can also scrounge the area for weapons, ammo, and health, which will be needed as finding ammo or new weapons can feel limited by yourself.

Sure, you can pick up axes or shovels or such and use them to beat another player to death, but the fact of the matter is guns are the dominating force, their power only kept vaguely in check by having to scrounge ammunition as well.

Then again, if the thought of hunting and scrounging for items to upgrade you gear in between epic battles to the death with massive creatures via very strict, unforgiving combat mechanics doesn't tickle your fancy, then you'll probably pass this game on by and be better for it.

Only small pockets of underground communities now exist, scrounging for a living by any means necessary, choosing stealth and silence over all out combat.

By the time we got there all the beer had been taken so we were stuck with bad whisky and wine until Kiyoshi Shin brought around some Asahi he managed to scrounge somewhere, I have no idea where he could have found it.

Making matters worse, the specter of permadeath looms over the experience, and money is especially hard to come by, meaning you'll gain most of your cash by unloading wares you'll scavenge from the dungeons themselves at the Escario's shop to scrounge up the cash for the good stuff.

Scrounge for supplies during the day, and hope you find enough to hang on to life by your fingernails through the seemingly endless nights.

Part of the problem is visible around refugee camps in this West Darfur city or particularly around the Kalma camp near Nyala in South Darfur, where a forest of baobab, acacia, palm and other trees has been largely decimated by the displaced, who scrounge for firewood or logs to sell.

To obtain or achieve [something] by persuasive talk or plausible deception; to bluff, to dupe or deceive by bluffing; to scrounge, esp.

I decided to give it some length by adding a ruffle, so I scrounged up the tiny bit of fabric scraps leftover from my laundry room and ceiling fan lampshades and used the same process that I did for my ruffle Christmas trees... hot glue and all.