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
But even those bits are little more than cliches cadged straight from the Carrie Fisher handbook.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2020
Later, when she orders the Athenian senators to step down or die, their unlikely answer — “We no longer are defensible” — is cadged from “Henry V.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2020
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
