cadge

How To Use cadge In A Sentence

• This mammoth, multiyear project involved reinstalling its enormous collection across 26 galleries in an institution that, because it is barred by law from building out, had to cadge what extra space it could from within the existing envelope. Opening the Book of American Art
• He asked Gordon Brown for a rock solid assurance that whatever he did to clear the nations debts he would never ever meet a Russian millionaire to to "cadge" the money. BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
• A letter written on February 16th, 1953, to the ailing Welsh poet, who in fact died later that year, offering what small mead of help he could, draws back the veil upon an aspect of the Cymric cadger hitherto well hidden.
• He had been cadged for drinks before by the old cannibal, and the sternest tambo Grief and McTavish had laid down was the one forbidding alcohol to the natives of New Gibbon. THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON
• Cats who have to scavenge and cadge and sleep out in bad weather in the big cities do not live long. ON CATS
• Is anybody else thinking of going, especially from the Leeds area so I can cadge a lift.
• Beckwith rang the bell about two hours later, clearly hoping to cadge dinner. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
• He was not paid except for tips he could get from spectators by telling hunting stories about some of the falcons on the cadge.
• So when falcons were carried on the cadge you could quickly see the required falcon by the colour of the eye panels and the type of feathers in its plume.
• (As any young person who has cadged a down payment from parents can attest, intergenerational wealth transfers are a particularly efficient way of gaining a foothold in homeownership and so building wealth.) Study: Racial Wealth Gap Widened Over the Last Generation | Impact Lab