Sentences with phrase «spend scrounging»

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I'd spent four years scrounging parts and figuring ways around red tape, all for the good of the country.

Having spent the previous 2 holiday seasons scrounging for employment we felt blessed to have a roof over our heads and food on the table this year.

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.

Dwight (Macon Blair) is a beach bum, spending his days scrounging recyclables on the Virginia coast and his nights in a gruesome 1990 Pontiac Bonneville.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If the $ 95 annual fee is that tough to scrounge up but spending on mileage runs isn't I'm not so sure the funding priorities are right.

The environmental storytelling immediately struck me as I spent a good few minutes exploring ever corner of the floor to scrounge up as much info on what had happened as I could.

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.

For many, standing in checkout lines, fighting crowds, and digging through unorganized racks isn't the way they want to spend what little free time they can scrounge up.

After over a year spent shopping itself, selling off assets and scrounging together financing to keep it solvent, Mills finally found a buyer: On Jan. 18, Brookfield Asset Management Co., a Toronto - based real estate firm that owns mostly office space, agreed to pay about $ 7.5 billion including assumed debt and preferred stock.

I didn't want to spend any money on this project so I scrounged up a piece of scrap beadboard from my kitchen project.