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
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
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
