sponger

Example Sentences

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Kinetic impact projectiles include rubber, plastic, wooden, and “sponger” bullets, which are shot from launchers and guns.

From Reuters

Protesters have also been hit by a variety of rubber, plastic, and “sponger” bullets.

From Reuters

Given that Magnus is a sponger, a con man, Catholic convert and gay, he comes across as a second cousin to that comparably fascinating outcast, Frederick Rolfe, the self-styled Baron Corvo.

From Washington Post

Migrants fleeing violence or seeking a better life in the US were reframed through Trump’s racist prism as an unstoppable torrent of dark-skinned psychopaths and spongers.

From The Guardian

If he hadn’t been an American and an in-law, he was the sort of character who would have fascinated Kipling: he was a boisterous but charming drinker, bankrupt, sponger, and tale-spinner.

From The New Yorker