sponging

Example Sentences

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Alice spends her days cleaning Lady Jemima’s stinky shoes, sponging her underwear and greasing her long blonde hair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

Generative AI is developing so quickly that soon the large-language models sponging up information on the internet will run out of content to feed on.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024

Wedging himself between Dickie and Marge, he becomes obsessed — an obsession in which the lines between befriending Dickie, sponging off Dickie and becoming Dickie are progressively erased.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024

It was Herder who called Europe’s voracious expansionism worldwide “the grand European sponging enterprise.”

From Salon • Sep. 16, 2018

I set it aside and go on sponging, trying not to hurt him.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron