augment

He worked late every night, hoping to augment his meager savings. The overtime hours were hard, but the extra money would help them afford the bigger apartment they desperately needed for their growing family.

The small village struggled. Even with everyone working, the harvest barely fed them. The elders decided they needed to augment their meager stores. They began trading dried berries for extra seeds, hoping to increase the amount of food for winter.

The old farmer worried his meager harvest wouldn't feed his family through winter. He'd found a few forgotten roots in the back field, hoping they would augment the rest of his stores and make the food last a little longer.

My pet hamster, Sir Reginald Fluffernutter III, has an insatiable appetite. To augment his already enormous food stash, I secretly slipped him an extra sunflower seed. Now he's so round, he rolls everywhere!

My pet badger, Bartholomew, ate my homework. To augment the situation, I told the teacher he was practicing for the Badger Olympics and needed extra training. She seemed to buy it, but Bartholomew still owes me a math worksheet he promises to "fetch" later.

She tried to augment her meager salary by taking on extra shifts. Every extra hour she worked, every weekend she sacrificed, helped to increase the amount of money she had, bringing her closer to affording rent.

The old farmer surveyed the dry, cracked earth, his heart sinking. He desperately needed rain to augment the meager water reserves for his prize-winning glow-worms. Without more moisture, the delicate luminescence they produced to attract nocturnal pollinators would fade, jeopardizing the entire season's harvest.

The tiny, bioluminescent fungi in the cavern pulsed faintly. We needed more light, so we carefully gathered more of the glowing specimens. Each new cluster we added began to augment the dim, eerie glow, pushing back the suffocating darkness just a little more with every precious, tiny spark.

My cat's appetite is legendary; she can augment her kibble intake with anything vaguely edible. I swear, if a dust bunny rolled past, she'd try to augment her lunch with it. Her purrs, when she's not actively trying to augment her food supply, are the only evidence she's not a tiny, furry vacuum cleaner.

Barry the badger, a renowned competitive belly-flopper, practiced his technique by strapping extra inflatable pool rings to his midsection. He hoped this would augment his splash radius, ensuring a thunderous, championship-winning impact. His coach, a perpetually bewildered squirrel, just hoped Barry wouldn't drift away.

She carefully added another log to the struggling fire. She wanted to augment the warmth radiating through the chilly cabin. Her shivering hands worked to increase the size of the flames, hoping for a more comfortable evening.

She carefully placed another iridescent scale onto the burgeoning bioluminescent fungus, hoping to augment its faint glow. The dark cavern floor was treacherous, but the cluster's timid light was their only guide. They needed it brighter, soon.

The scientist adjusted the amplifier, hoping to augment the faint signal. Hours of meticulous work, and still, only whispers from the nebula. She needed to increase the amount of data received, to truly understand the anomaly before its departure.

Barnaby, a seasoned gourmand, decided his lukewarm soup needed a serious boost. He began to augment it with a clandestine cascade of habaneros and anchovy paste, hoping to increase the amount of sheer, unadulterated flavor without anyone noticing his culinary chaos.

The ambitious squirrel, Bartholomew, decided to augment his acorn hoard by raiding Farmer McGregor’s prize-winning pumpkins. He’d learned that a well-placed gnaw could increase the pumpkin’s bounty by at least thirty percent, a truly remarkable achievement for such a diminutive rodent aiming for unparalleled autumnal sustenance.

She desperately needed to augment her meager savings; even a small increase would suffice to cover the burgeoning tuition fees and alleviate her gnawing anxiety. Her persistent efforts aimed to augment her financial stability.

The relentless wind howled, threatening to rip the canvas from its moorings. We needed to augment the guy lines, adding more rope to better secure the shelter against the tempest. The additional tension felt like a desperate prayer against the elements.

The alchemist carefully measured another vial of shimmering liquid, hoping to augment the potion's already potent luminescence. Their patron, a stoic magnate of interplanetary trade, demanded a far brighter beacon for their celestial rendezvous point. Success meant a considerable bonus.

The ambitious chef, a veritable culinary demigod, sought to augment his already prodigious soufflés. His stratagem involved a clandestine infusion of pixie dust, believing it would spectacularly augment their ethereal loftiness. Alas, the ensuing confection resembled a gelatinous nebula, a preposterous testament to his hubris.

To augment my meticulously curated collection of artisanal artisanal badger-hair combs, I’ve painstakingly procured several pre-prandial platypus whiskers, thereby increasing the overall opulence and, one hopes, the bristly efficacy of my grooming accoutrements.