cadge

You’ll probably be able to cadge a ticket on the fly at a number of venues; if not, have a snack or a drink or just relax and enjoy the vibe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2019

One recent morning, a man dropped by Mr. Mishurov’s farmyard office to cadge a bucket of corn for his hens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2018

Apparently this individual uses a variety of stories to cadge money, including claims of homelessness or a need to get to some distant city to see family.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 14, 2017

The disconnect between the movie’s goals and its actual comic energy becomes most evident during a road trip to Greenwich, Connecticut, where Brooke plans to cadge money from an old friend who’s married rich.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2015

Gaines, a black officer so big that he seldom seemed to have to raise his voice, had traded words with an inmate who tried to cadge extra juice from under his nose.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Levi cadges a tube ticket from the audience to use as a guitar wedge, they speed through one last aggregation of choppy guitar jabs and frenetic percussion, and Micachu and the Shapes are gone.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2012

Fiennes, exuding sulfurous resolve as Hades, cadges some sympathy for a god who is asked to align with Zeus, the younger brother who consigned him to the lower depths.

From Time ● Mar. 29, 2012

To minimize costs, he is based at his sister's apartment in Miami during the winter and then cadges accommodations all over the world by networking in the close-knit sailing community.

From Chicago Tribune ● Feb. 1, 2012

He has become an asphalt urchin of Manhattan, where he cunningly cadges an existence off the body of a society that he believes is sick, bloated and dying.

From Time Magazine Archive

"And if it comes to that. what must you people think of a down-at-heel Yankee who descends on you and cadges for a job after he's been told there's no work here for him?"

From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Albert Payson Terhune

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

His mother had died when he was 10, leaving him with his father, who cadged work as a mechanic.

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2019

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

That machine was developed without advice or assistance from Berkeley but with funding cadged from the Soviet regime very much by the Berkeley method: by stressing its potential contributions to medical research.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency told us again of babies cadging small-business loans and long-dead citizens collecting Social Security.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

The custom dates back more than 150 years, but was stopped in 1909 by the local constabulary, which saw the "straw bears" as a form of "cadging", or begging, for rewards.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024

The dark Little Tokyo alleys through which Ishikawa Sakuzo wanders — begging for change, cadging meals, working to conquer his homesickness and self-hatred — are every bit as Angeleno as Chandler’s and West’s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023

Before he got his band off the ground, he worked as a music journalist, cadging interviews with heroes like David Bowie and the Cure’s Robert Smith, hoping they’ll provide meaningful songwriting advice.

From Washington Post ● May 29, 2020

Recalling his previous work, he began looking for more, driving around ranches, cadging rides in private planes.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann