The presence of the arctic foxes on the pack ice during the winter demonstrates the availability of scavenging opportunities on the ice.
Polar bear and seals are both common in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas in winter, but no scavenging seabirds are found there in the winter.
Actually, most scavenging occurs at levels II and III, so about 90% of the seabirds in each community feed at levels II and III.
For example, whaling and sealing in the 19th century must have provided large amounts of food for scavenging birds and eliminated important competitors for the larger fish-eating birds.
Sometimes the cost of hydrants is shared with the scavenging department or the commission of sewers, which also have the use of them.
The retained fire brigade comprises entirely municipal employes, regularly engaged in the municipal workshops, scavenging and works department.
A division of Yanadis, who do scavenging work, and eat the refuse food thrown away by people from the leaf plate after a meal.
It is evident that the greater the force, within certain limits, with which the charge enters the cylinder, the more perfect will be the scavenging action.
But it is claimed that thus employing the fresh mixture as a scavenging agent is wasteful of the fuel-permeated charge and does not conduce to efficient running.
Then too, whatever air may escape contains no fuel, and consequently efficient scavenging may be obtained without waste.
As has been described in the first chapter of the present volume, the four-cycle motor devotes a separate stroke to each of the events of expansion, scavenging or expulsion of the burned gases, suction, and compression.
The Haddis proper never do sweeping or scavenging work, which are, in some places, done by Rellis.
In addition to collecting and selling grass, the Ghasis are employed at scavenging work.
A scavenging pump of the rotary type was employed, driven by means of gearing from the engine crankshaft, and in order to reduce weight to a minimum the vanes were of aluminium.
The carburetted mixture was drawn into the scavenging cylinders, and the usual deflectors were cast on the piston heads to assist in the scavenging and to prevent the fresh gas from passing out of the exhaust ports.
In 1891 Mr Day invented a two-stroke cycle engine which used the crank case as a scavenging chamber, and a very large number of these engines have been built for industrial purposes.
Lubrication was by means of two pumps, one scavenging and one suction, oil being fed under pressure from the crankshaft.
If this or something like this were done, the fixed charges on the house would produce a considerable sum, which would go far towards paying the municipal bills for scavenging and sewering.
It seems to me that much of our municipal scavenging is too magnificent, and that it is often inefficient in proportion to its magnificence.
Nor was there much attention given, during those great days of the sailcloth industry, to the scavenging and lighting of the town, and probably little to the overcrowded state of its old-fashioned streets and lanes.
Its neglect ofscavenging became a classical instance of the favouring conditions of cholera.
Under Elizabeth, the orders as to scavenging become much more stringent, as we shall see.
Thus, when we attempt to clear the sense of our rather mixed notions on the unwholesome life of former times, we must feel constrained to withdraw a great part of the accusation as to nuisances tolerated or scavenging neglected.
An efficient daily scavengingof all streets and lanes and the daily removal of refuse from the houses, coupled with the provision of covered metal dust-bins, to reduce as far as possible the amount of food available for rats.
There are four inspectors in charge of the scavenging work, one for the disinfection stations in Victoria and old Kowloon, one for the cemeteries and two for general duty.
Next to the bazaar stood the stables, and Hawksworth noticed flocks of small boys, naked save for a loincloth, scavenging to find any dung cakes that had been overlooked by the women who collected fuel.
It seems to worsen in the years after crops have been bad, when there are hungry dogs and rats scavenging in the streets.
Only the rooks are to be seen scavenging up the fragments of bread and waste victuals which the men have thrown out of their pockets for them.
The rooks seem perfectly inured to the smoke and steam and the life of the factory yard; at all hours of the day they may be seen scavenging around the sheds, picking up any stray morsel that happens to be lying about.
Were we to be one of the chosen Divisions to go forward as part of the Army of Occupation, or were we to be left to spend weary months scavenging in the fair land of France?
Rightly or wrongly we were inclined to think that we were unlucky with regard to billets, as we so often found ourselves scavenging and cleaning up other people's refuse.
Indian police experience records many cases of the discovery of bodies through the agency of kites, vultures, crows, andscavenging wild beasts.
He came to the conclusion that the successful resistance which an animal offered to bacteria depended upon the activity of these scavenging cells, or phagocytes.
Thus the more thorough scavenging and removal of the filth of streets and houses, vitally necessary as that was, resulted in the accumulation of great heaps of filth in crowded centres.
A good deal of paving was done, and better measures taken for scavenging the streets and courts, and for the removal of refuse and dirt of all sorts.
The rest of the work done was mostly of the routine order, such as scavenging and paving and lighting, though even that was not always done in the most sensible way, as exemplified in Paddington (1866).
Homo Habilis was past the scavenging stage and well into foraging, hunting, and fishing during the pre-agricultural pragmatic frame.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scavenging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
