cadge

Schwarzenegger made a pilgrimage to Washington to cadge more money from the government, but came home empty-handed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025

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

When they served grilled cheese or chicken sandwiches for lunch, I would cadge extras from the children who hardly ever cleaned their plates.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

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

"Then," said the man, "who stole the dean's cadges?"

From Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How by Frederick Douglas How

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

But even those bits are little more than cliches cadged straight from the Carrie Fisher handbook.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2020

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

I remember sitting in a cafe one Sunday in my second year, having cadged two hours to study while Jon took the baby alone.

From BBC ● May 15, 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

Recent headlines about a black bear found in Disney World and a video of another cadging lunch in front of a cowering mother and child have raised fears of attacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023

When we meet at the store a week before the CD's release, Latham is casually cadging a free coffee from one of her former colleagues.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2021

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