FORAGE in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for FORAGE, such as:

1. The animals forage in the woods.
2. Miss La Trobe was scattering and foraging.
3. One group left the camp to forage for firewood.
4. He foraged in the kitchen for something to eat.
5. The soldiers foraged the villages near their camp.

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 Meanings and Examples of FORAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
forage
 v.  hunt for; search; the act of searching for food
Classic Sentence:
1  Nikolai Petrovitch would fix a money fine for damages, but the matter usually ended after the horses had been kept a day or two on the master's forage by their returning to their owners.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be doubled.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII
3  He was clean-shaven and wore a Guardsman's padded coat with an Order of St. George at his buttonhole and a plain forage cap set straight on his head.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VIII
4  That little flat-topped forage cap Ashley was wearing looked ridiculous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  But the only hats obtainable in Atlanta were crudely made wool hats, and they were tackier than the monkey-hat forage caps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  Then two officers emerged, bowing too, and a stout man with a big beard, wearing a greasy forage cap.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 2
7  Pork foraged far, at times not coming home all night, and Scarlett did not ask him where he went.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  Madame Antoine had cooked little else than the mullets, but while Edna slept Robert had foraged the island.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
9  Now and then Jurgis camped out with a gang of them in some woodland haunt, and foraged with them in the neighborhood at night.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
10  Miss La Trobe was scattering and foraging.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
11  Denisov, who had been losing at cards all night, had not yet come home when Rostov rode back early in the morning from a foraging expedition.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
12  This miserable strain confines me to my bed; but Mousqueton forages, and brings in provisions.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
Example Sentence:
1  The animals forage in the woods.
2  Female deer leave their fawns in secluded spots while they forage for food.
3  One group left the camp to forage for firewood.
4  The soldiers foraged the villages near their camp.
5  He foraged in the kitchen for something to eat.
6  Massive baggage trains enabled rapid troop movement by the Frankish army without repeated foraging.