cadged
Example Sentences
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Instead she took a too-expensive Motel 6 room, then couch-surfed, cadged a shared hotel room with a colleague and slept some nights in the airport — which isn’t allowed, she said, but “I chanced it.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2023
Later, in Seattle, he cadged studio time from his room-mate and producer Barrett Jones, using spare tape from other bands' sessions to record his own "experiments".
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2021
The battle scenes, which should have the taut realism and intensity of “The Hurt Locker,” instead feel like an unconvincing series of poses cadged from earlier, better war movies.
From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2019
He was not what you might call Army material, but he cadged enough free time to bag a slew of first ascents with a cohort of Koreans, in the mountains around Seoul.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 2016
During the summer of 1935, John cadged a small grant from the Macy Foundation to travel third class to Berkeley, and presented himself and his mice at the Rad Lab.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
