Sentences with phrase «scrounging for»

You wake up and the kids» school uniforms aren't washed, there's no bread to make sandwiches for their lunch, the sheets and towels from the trip have been tossed in the laundry along with an inexplicably enormous bag of dirty underwear, you've run out of toilet paper and are reduced to scrounging for Kleenex, the front hall is piled halfway to the ceiling with suitcases plus six recycling bags filled with detritus from the trip... and you have to walk the Sprogs to school because Husband has dropped the car in for a service.

Then I'll go scrounging for some cool doorknobs — the «jewelry» to put the finishing touch on it.

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

Someone's scrounging for grant money in a tough time for getting grants no doubt.

The price tag of this spare official charger is a bit hefty, so if you find yourself scrounging for change, there are cheaper alternatives elsewhere.

As a consumer, the amount of companies scrounging for your business can be overwhelming, but it can also be highly beneficial.

Less than half have survived and oil - producing units are now scrounging for seeds.

Do some original data scrounging for yourself.

The continual scrounging for materials is evident too.

The games are all about scrounging for materials, crafting gear, and improving your character — it would be very easy for Capcom to insert all sorts of microtransactions into the upcoming Monster Hunter: World.

Like Diablo, the focus is on scrounging for loot, killing mobs and clearing chapters with seven different classes.

The last few years have been barren of big Star Wars releases, leaving fans scrounging for entertainment like Jawas searching for droids in the Jundland Wastes.

Rather than fighting for survival against hordes of zombies or nightmarish demons while scrounging for ammo and precious health packs, the game instead sets players off on a journey deep into the darkest recesses of pain, sadness and torment.

You spend most of your time in Dead Island when you're not kicking / beating zombies to death scrounging for various supplies and money needed to repair and buy new ones.

With Microsoft unwilling, as yet, to talk about what they're working on, all we're left with is scrounging for rumors and industry chatter.

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

Cities have been reduced to rubble with the inhabitants scrounging for food and ammunition, simply waiting for their nightmares to begin again.

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.

In the Hangover, we're scrounging for bullets in Metro: Last Light, being very secretive about the first Guild02 title, The Starship Damrey, and making new friends in Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery.

Scrounging for resources in order to craft is half the battle, with resources especially difficult to find.

Another plus — the battery is rechargeable via an included USB cable, so you won't have to go scrounging for AAs anytime soon.

A trio of best buds posing and hamming it up for the camera with cows and pigs scrounging for scraps of garbage in the background.

It couldn't have been easy for her growing up living on the streets, scrounging for food.

He is always scrounging for free hands to pet him.

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.

Diets formulated this way are highly palatable, so the dog likes to eat the food, and they leave him or her satisfied and not constantly scrounging for more.

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.

Many will be gathering around the dinner table, snacking during the Cowboys game, or scrounging for leftovers the day after.

Being perched, owning their territory, and scrounging for crumbs are all instinctive and must be corrected early on if you're interested in re-routing that behavior.

If your dog is scrounging for food when you know he should be full, treat him to some extra play or grooming time.

If your pooch is pudgy, unfit, and constantly scrounging for snacks, you should probably take a look at their diet.

A little more than one hundred years after his fateful encounter with a young soldier on the streets of New Haven, Connecticut, the animated film Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero tells the tale of Stubby, a brindle and white pit bull - type dog, and Robert Conroy, the soldier who found him scrounging for scraps near a military camp.

A tough economy has left many consumers scrounging for the extra few dollars needed to feed their pets premium diets.

Consider that 23 hours and 55 minutes of this evolutionary day occurred while our ancestors were on the savanna, living moment to moment, scrounging for food and avoiding predators.

For most of 2010, thousands of loan officers have been scrounging for hot refinance leads.

I am still scrounging for replacements for voice recognition, photo and video editing software.

Being a survivor of World War II, being someone who spent years — approximately the years I am now experiencing — scrounging for food while traversing Europe barefoot, she is acutely, desperately aware of weights: of bodies, of presences, of things that do and don't exist.

Teaching in the 21st century means you are most likely cash - strapped and scrounging for even the most basic supplies.

When she faces the make or break end of school national examination, she doesn't want to be scrounging for missing information.

Even though state spending on prekindergarten has grown $ 1 billion nationwide over the past two years, a report says, state policymakers looking to sustain and expand their programs — especially in tough budget times — are still scrounging for more money.

The games are all about scrounging for materials, crafting gear, and improving your character — it would be very easy for Capcom to insert all sorts of microtransactions into the upcoming Monster Hunter: World.

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.

Anwen Bakian's family lives in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, scrounging for food and avoiding giant bugs intent on eating them.

Felicity Jones («Like Crazy») is sweet Emily; dutiful and proper while Maggie Gyllenhaal is terrific as Charlotte, a hot - tempered suffragette who is always scrounging for money to help the poor.

Gameplay involves a lot of stealth as combat isn't an option, while scrounging for batteries...

Gameplay involves a lot of stealth as combat isn't an option, while scrounging for batteries to power your night vision camcorder is vital.

In Apocalypse, you play as a new hero who joins the Hunters - a group that works for the people, scrounging for food and offering aid to those in need.

The Evil Within 2 is stingy with ammunition; I spent a large portion of my initial time with the game scrounging for gunpowder to craft my own bullets.

A sad man, Lester (Gabriel Byrne), and his quirky friends (Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy, Boyd Gaines), all aging, struggling actors, spend their spare time in a New York actors» lounge while scrounging for small - time parts.

The film's opening scene takes place approximately three months after these creatures have somehow made their presence known, with the Abbott family — Lee (Krasinski) and his wife, Evelyn (Emily Blunt), along with their three children — scrounging for supplies in an abandoned supermarket, padding around barefoot so as not to alert the monsters of their presence.