scrounge BrE informal
mooch AmE informal , also: mouch BrE

For many months they found themselves scrounging money of the floor.

Just then we heard something scrounging about in the food safe.

But he was still forced to scrounge for a living.

Today there need be no scrounging around for interesting things to do.

You might scrounge around for that - 93 or 94,I think.

It was possible the Will might be able to scrounge up enough money to call him again, so he'd better get that.

"I keep thinking that I'll be scrounging for change soon enough," he said.

They spent the first part of the 90's scrounging for work in local theaters.

"While you were gone, the children and I went scrounging through the control room wreckage."

It was difficult enough to scrounge up meals for the two of them.

Every car in the city was scrounging around looking for you."

And it sometimes has to scrounge around for rehearsal space.

With no profession or trade to fall back on, he was left to scrounge for a living.

When the first people tried to start Internet companies here in the mid-90's, they had to scrounge to raise money.

It was Vietnamese behavior, she thought, making do with what he could scrounge.

"So I'm going to have somebody take a look, and see if we can scrounge anything up for the estate."

Dressed like this, she could usually scrounge up dinner in less than five minutes.

Scrounging the most basic equipment for the new Iraqi military was another problem.

Between the car and the house, I scrounged up five flashlights.

"I always wanted to be able to live nice, not to have to scrounge around for money.

Not that everything in the house can be easily purchased or scrounged.

Her husband is unemployed and does not get benefits, but he has ways of scrounging up money.

I've never scrounged off anybody; I always went out and earned it.

Not having a car, always scrounging change for the bus, walking, or running through the rain.

Probably thought we were scrounging quarters to do our laundry.

When she went back to the boat I mooched around by myself for a while.

Years later, I ran into him when he was mooching money for a cup of coffee.

Mooching around at school until 18 is not good for the country or the pupil.

I spent the rest of the day mooching around the station, thinking about Lisa.

They mooched off, looking for people more willing to be intimidated.

There didn't seem to be quite so many mooching around these days, that was a fact.

Lauren mooched about the school in a very bad mood.

He mooched over to the nearest one, and kicked it.

Ape mooched along in the middle somewhere, as if his mind was miles away.

But teenagers grow up, go to university, and suddenly mooching around Europe is possible again.

At this time only those players who have mooched food, clothing, and shelter can win.

BB - 1 day 17 hours ago is mooching off a successful woman a career?

I could hear the soldiers mooching around outside, and in the middle distance there was shouting.

All that talk of "Sylvia" had been just an excuse for mooching around.

At lunch I saw her wolf down a sandwich she'd mooched off one of the boys.

Mooching lunch from my mom wasn't a bad idea, now that I thought about it.

So we mooched up and down the deck, snapping at each other like sharks.

"So I was mooching around listening to all their foolishness, but then a message came in instead of going out."

He was getting better at this, mooching usually no more than three smokes on a stressful day.

She would get to the point only after she had mooched her fill.

Says he was as surprised as you guys, when she mooched into the picture.

He spills the whole lay, and all the tabs have been mooching around.

The system feels they're mooching and there's not a big urgency to help them."

I'm a graduate student at a famous university, mooching off private scholarships and government grants.