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Significats de scavenger en anglès

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Someone who collects things that have been discarded by others.

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An organism that feeds on decaying flesh.

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Examples for "magpie"
Examples for "magpie"
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TRAVEL:Paul Theroux has a magpie-like mind that jumps from subject to subject.
The Irish Times
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One was a dainty little magpie; the other a soft-eyed turtle dove.
The Child's World: Third Reader
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It was a magpie, which actually had no business being in town.
Melnitz
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For the magpie is the cleverest bird of all at building nests.
Good Stories for Great Holidays / Arranged for Story-Telling and...
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Unlike the rook, crow and magpie mentioned the woodpigeon is good eating.
The Irish Times
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I would imagine him to be a bit of a pack rat.
The new yorker
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It was that kind of investigation that fit her pack rat mentality.
The perfect woman
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Mamie had always been messy, and also something of a pack rat.
Futures 1
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A bit of a pack rat, but I guess we shouldn't complain.
Kafka on the Shore
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The leader snarled something, and another pack rat scuttled forward with a lighter.
The iron king
Ús de scavenger en anglès
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The aftermath of the war has created a new, illegal profession: scavenger.
The Cylons’ Secret
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Escrissar scrabbled across the ground, a scavenger surprised by a true predator.
The brazen gambit
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She is the grand scavenger and practical sanitary commissioner of the earth.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
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It was a fun scavenger hunt, populated with products rather than people.
Wired
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Concepts of the scavenger by Kate Hawley closely followed del Toro's direction.
Cabinet of Curiosities
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Don Antonio was the pet of the Aurora Borealis, and its scavenger.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
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You used to love doing my scavenger hunts when you were little.
Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
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Some scavenger would find her and there would be evidence of it.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
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She took us out there to find someone from the scavenger ship.
The Cylons’ Secret
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The villain was obviously some Aventine scavenger, but a stranger to me.
The Silver Pigs
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Someone who wouldn't shrink from eliminating the scavenger whose craft they intercepted.
The Reality Dysfunction
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You can hold the kid while she goes on this scavenger hunt.
Takeover
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I am like a scavenger, always on the lookout for a snack.
Flash and Bones
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He, too, scavenger though he is, has a genius for being graceful.
A Florida Sketch-Book
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The dog was probably just a scavenger working the trash. He paused.
Naked Heat
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A general scavenger, the Burying-beetle refuses nothing in the way of cadaveric putridity.
The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
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Scavenger a través del temps
Scavenger per variant geogràfica
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