freeloading

Example Sentences

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Some users in Korea on social media have said cagonjok are also freeloading electricity.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2025

Answer: Unfortunately, the IRS doesn’t consider freeloading relatives as one of the hardships that can modify the home sales exclusion rules.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2025

If an in-app transaction is completed outside the Apple system in the U.S., the company plans to collect commissions from 12% to 27% to prevent freeloading on its iPhone software.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2024

The fact is that salmon farming, as it has been practiced until recently, is a freeloading business.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2022

I’d been in the same room with the ambassador every minute that he was in our house, and besides, that overstuffed, freeloading bureaucrat was too self-involved to ever commit murder.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson