Sentences with phrase «who scavenges»

You know that friend or family member who scavenges through antique stores every summer weekend?

Set in a ramshackle, hilly village run by a group of white - hatted snobs more devoted to cheese - tasting than serving the community, «The Boxtrolls» is a 3D romp about the collision between the village and the subterranean - dwelling Boxtrolls, who scavenge for trash but have been targeted for extermination by a nefarious baddie named Snatcher (voiced by Ben Kingsley).

Amid the hum of the motors on the street, I also hear the clackety clack of hooves hitting the cobblestones, the sound of a legion of cartoneros, people who scavenge in the streets each night trying to fill their horse - drawn carts with old newspapers, packing cartons, aluminum cans or edible scraps.

From there, they are passed on to snails and slugs, who scavenge dog waste for food.

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And everybody knows the type of CEOs who tend to star in such episodes: the tireless searchers who — on top of running their fast - growing companies — never seem to run short of either ideas or new places to scavenge for them.

Irene is an outdoorsy girl who likes riding bikes, camping, fishing, and scavenging for outdoor treasures to collect.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke at the funeral for Timothy Caughman, a black man who was killed in a racist attack by a white Balitmore man armed with a sword on the night of March 20 while scavenging in Midtown.

The way in which the robot stores and releases energy is impressive, says Chris Melhuish, director of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK, who develops robots that scavenge energy from their environment.

He believes the people at Dmanisi, who subsisted on whatever meat they could scavenge or kill — «Our guess is that they were quite dangerous hunters» — may have mashed this person's food so it could be gummed.

Researchers who observed great white sharks scavenge a whale carcass off the coast of South Africa found that multiple animals fed beside each other at the same time, displaying relaxed behavior such as a belly - up posture and a lack of ocular rotation.

I found the treatment of this topic less even - handed, with Lewis Binford's views on the Olduvai material and scavenging given free rein, while the often contrary findings of Henry Bunn, Pat Shipman and Richard Potts — who have found that some Olduvai bones were processed by stone tools before carnivores got to them — are not included.

Dr McDevitt and the team of researchers including PhD student Stephanie Begg, who conducted the research, are investigating how the disease - causing bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae is able to scavenge essential metals during infection, and how this might be blocked to prevent disease.

And when you include the many features we share with predators and scavengers (who, it should be noted, only predate and scavenge animals), not to mention the architecture of our digestive system, the evidence becomes overwhelming.

Yet where War Dogs offers a cautious celebration of reckless, industrious youth, the film itself is the product of a filmmaker who is utterly unwilling to scavenge for advantageous points of entry.

Soft - spoken hero Mo (Dylan McDermott), a Mad Max - type who ekes out a living scavenging metal scraps in the desert - like «Zone», buys a dismembered killer android from a mysterious nomad and gives it to his sculptor girlfriend Jill (Stacey Travis) as a Christmas present.

The filmmaker is John Krasinski, who also co-wrote the screenplay (with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck) and stars as the patriarch of this scavenging, hiding family.

Rejoining Noah in the present day, he (now a staunch Russell Crowe) and his wife (Jennifer Connelly, her second project with Aronofsky after Requiem for a Dream) live off the land like nomads, farming and scavenging for vegetables as the humans under the flag of Cain continue to ravage the Earth and pillage the world, their depravity reaching enough of a fever pitch to become an affront to God (who is always referred to as Creator).

The other story's central animal characters are: Kaa, the snake (Cate Blanchett); the leader of the wolf pack, Akela (Peter Mullan); the scavenging hyena, Tabaqui (Tom Hollander); Nisha, the female wolf (Naomi Harris), who adopts the baby Mowgli as one of her cubs; Nisha's mate, Vihaan (Eddie Marsan); and Mowgli's Brother Wolf (Jack Reynor).

For those who haven't played before, you may not know the ins and outs of the series» notoriously complex crafting system, which allows you to make healing items from things scavenged from the world.

You explore, you go on simple missions, you kill or avoid zombies who are actually pretty tough, and you scavenge for all sorts of insane items that you can use to craft objects like firecrackers, which you can use to lure zombies where you want them to go, and upgrade your character in the three skill lines of Agility, Power, and Survival.

In what's left of their neighbourhood, Billy (Christina Hendricks) lives in her family home with her sons: a toddler and a teen named Bones (Iain De Caestecker), who helps support the household by scavenging for copper in the vacant buildings nearby.

It's hell though, for the folks in A Quiet Place — New England farmers (John Krasinski, Emily Blunt) who, on day 89 of the alien plague, are scavenging for food and medicine and useful items in a deserted rural town.

Deutch stars as Erica, a teenage girl who rabidly scavenges suburbia for love and validation (i.e. using

Iron Crows (Unrated) Eco-documentary chronicling the dangerous work of the 20,000 peasants who risk their lives daily to earn $ 2 a day scavenging ships from all over the world being dumped in a toxic naval graveyard located in the port city of Chittagong.

Despondent and wracked with guilt, Legrand slides down the economic class scale until the ending, when he is shown as a grizzled vagrant who seems almost inordinately happy with whatever bits of leftover food or pocket change he can scavenge.

In his place is Bretton James (Josh Brolin), CEO of some sort of investment firm who gossips another trading company into bankruptcy, bets on its failure, and scavenges the remnants on the cheap from the Federal Reserve.

The winding plot introduces us to resistance fighter Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), Storm Trooper defector Finn (John Boyega) and Rey (Daisy Ridley), a young woman who makes a living scavenging space junk on the desert planet Jakku.

Among the 20 items students seek in Thomas's «Newshound People Scavenge» are students who can initial the following statements:

In a rich patois, Newman relates the story of Ice Cream Fifteen Star and her tribe, who wander a decimated future America scavenging old houses and avoiding posies, the disease that kills off adults.

The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers: men and women who risk their lives by diving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need.

Gulls, in particular, are among the major rodent predators along the California coast, and are themselves frequent prey for sea otters who stalk them from underwater, as well as scavenging fresh gull carcasses.

His worst behavior is going into the garbage to scavenge for tossed human food but who could blame him!

Working dogs, who come into contact with birds and other animals those which like to scavenge, who spend a lot of time in or near water, live in households with young children, or live in areas where there is a higher risk of picking up certain types of parasites may need treating more frequently

It was the simple fact that I could create my own spells that sold it for me — I'd spent hours simply tinkering around with a spell which, when unleashed in the middle of town, would immediately set fire to everyone and cause them to riot in the streets, after which I'd happily scavenge loot from the poor buggers who got caught up in it all.

Who knew that skulking around office buildings, scavenging for supplies, and then shotgunning anyone who crosses your path would be so much fWho knew that skulking around office buildings, scavenging for supplies, and then shotgunning anyone who crosses your path would be so much fwho crosses your path would be so much fun?

Thrifty players, who enjoy scavenging for resources, can save their metal shards, the currency in Horizon Zero Dawn, for large purchase like weapons and armor.

You will never have enough supplies to keep everyone happy at the same time so you must decide on who gets to sleep, who gets to eat and who is tasked with scavenging for supplies.

It's an astonishing simulation that models a group of survivors who band together in the face of the Zed apocalypse; exploring, scavenging, recruiting, creating a new home and permanently dying in an experience that's never the same twice or for any two players.

Bungie's Destiny: Rise of Iron (Xbox One) will be the final expansion to the multiplayer shooter, and it asks players to fight back against Fallen mutants who «now scavenge the tombs of the Golden Age.»

For the first time in the series, Pikmin 3 introduces the new Rock Pikmin who can hurl rocks at enemies for more battle damage, scavenge for materials, build bridges and more.

Players scavenge for food and water while trying survive by killing or avoiding both zombies and other players who pose a threat.

An extra bonus for anyone taking advantage of this promotion is the assurance it will run well on the majority of PC's so you can enjoy playing as Isaac Clarke an engineer on the USG Ishimura who creates weapons from scavenged mining equipment to fight off enemies called Necromorphs.

You need to go out into the world to scavenge for various supplies (or trade with other groups for them), clear out infested buildings and rescue team members who've encountered trouble, or morale will drop and people will begin leaving your group.

They included David Butler (1898 - 1997), who fashioned animals, angels and people from cut and painted tin and other found items; the religious painter Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 - 1980); Steve Ashby (1904 - 1980), who made raw figurative assemblages out of scavenged materials; and Elijah Pierce (1892 - 1984), whose carved and painted wood reliefs depict biblical scenes and national figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr..

Bradford, who will represent the United States at the 57th International Venice Biennale, is known for his monumental abstractions made of transformed materials scavenged from the southern California neighborhoods in which he was raised.

A fundamental part of the artist's practice is influenced by the collaborative building process undertaken by dwellers of improvised urban settlements around the world — favelas, barrios, slums, or shanti towns — who rely on recycled and scavenged materials to ingeniously, but often precariously, respond to their rapidly changing living situations.

Pope.L is included in The Barnes Foundation's exhibition, Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, which features work by more than 50 international artists who have taken to the street to play detective, make fantastic maps, scavenge and shop for new materials, launch guerrilla campaigns, and make provocative spectacles of themselves to speak to issues as diverse as commodity fetishism, gentrification, gender politics, globalization, racism, and homelessness.

He was fascinated by particular self - taught artists and focused his attention on James Castle, Bill Traylor, Nellie Mae Rowe, Thornton Dial, and someone he regarded as his own discovery, Willie Young, an African - American man who, when not shining shoes in Houston, made obsessively complex, poetic drawings on scavenged paper.

Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie features work by more than 50 international artists who have taken to the street to play detective, make fantastic maps, scavenge and shop for new materials, launch guerrilla campaigns, and make provocative spectacles of themselves to speak to issues as diverse as commodity fetishism, gentrification, gender politics, globalization, racism, and homelessness.

While my younger son, Jack, who's 10, has the standard array of stuffed animals, video games and the like, he has learned to enjoy scavenging for «toys» that the river provides — slabs that look like sabers from the «Lord of the Rings» films or perhaps a knotty ray gun from «Star Wars,» a crooked wand from «Harry Potter,» the gnarled head of a serpent.