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

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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
To cadge an opening from NPR's 'This American Life,' the theme of this morning's top stories is bipartisanship -- whether the two parties like it or not. Wonkbook: Bipartisanship -- whether the two parties like it or not
As well as being a self-described cadger, he was - if not a cad, a seducer. The Times Literary Supplement
He cadged a cigarette from me.
I sat near a lamp in my brother's abandoned bedroom, head toward the west, and read the books cadged from the bookmobile.
But first I cadged for myself two thick and hefty wood-chopping sections of beautifully grained cypress; what a difference that makes in the firewood chopping ritual!
The devious, dishonest, disreputable old cadger that he is. The Friday Cyril: Wednesday's Rochdale Obbie Postbag
So long as a cadger [from the Scandinavian word for "huckster"] is generous in turn (though not necessarily in kind), he ought not to be considered a deadbeat, freeloader, or sponger. Boing Boing
I detailed Kelly Eyre to Quimperlé with orders for ten thousand crimson hand-bills; I sent McCadger, with Dawley, the bass-drummer, and Irwin, the cornettist, to plaster our posters from Pont Aven to The Maids of Paradise
A want of application, a restlessness of purpose, a thirsting after porter, a love of all that is roving and cadger – like in nature, shared in common with many other great geniuses, appear to have been his leading characteristics. Sketches by Boz
From not being supplied with these necessaries, I was constantly having to "cadge Canada for Gentlemen
He had cadged the production dollars by promising the producer a two-for-one deal that never came.
See: BEGGAR, LOAF, SAUNTER. cadger: Cadging, the ancient art of imposing upon the generosity of others, is an essential skill for the would-be idler, since poverty is the easiest way to obtain a great deal of free time. Boing Boing
Billi walked sedately and by themselves; grooms of the kennels led greyhounds on the leash; behind them, almost bursting with importance, came a Persian deftly carrying the cadge, which is a kind of padded stand upon which, hooded and fastened by leashes, the favourite birds are carried to and fro. The Hawk of Egypt
Five lovely barbaries were assembled on the cadge.
From his customers he cadged two lamps, two chairs, a mattress, and a card table. Alba
This is a preamble to confessing that, like Jackie, I cadged a few puffs of a fat Cuban on Christmas Day.
He might as well walk up to Redall Farmhouse and see if he could cadge a cup of tea there. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Poor old uncle Tompson used to cadge some money for cigarettes from me.
Zimbabwe Africans told me that when they tried to start a businesslike a shop, or a farm, or a barand they failed because at the first sign of success their relatives showed up and cadged from them, or implored them to pay their relatives school fees. An Interview with Paul Theroux
Persian bureaucracy was still tiny and the Cadgers had embarked on almost no public works.
Tyndrum must be one of the easiest places in Scotland to cadge a ride.
So they cadged meetings with 86 luminaries, successful leaders in an eclectic array of professions.
He felt awkward and cold stood on the pavement outside the club, dressed as a woman, clutching his three pack of chocolate oranges, as one-by-one the various people he could possibly have cadged a lift from disappeared.
The next morning he called a friend, told him what had happened, and cadged a lift into the city centre to sign on, the court heard.
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
He could cadge a ride from somebody.
She swooped through the now-closed restaurant and cadged a glass of red wine.
The first act has some plot -- Margaret gets fired and then bullies Mike into inviting her to his birthday party so she can try and cadge a job from one of his friends. Michael Giltz: Theater: Not So "Good People," Fine "Timon," Lovely "Nightingale" and No KO for "Beautiful Burnout"
I would carry the hooded birds on the cadge, cast them off then fold it up and put it into my vest.
Beckwith rang the bell about two hours later, clearly hoping to cadge dinner. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
Our poor neighbours sometimes cadged food from us.
Poverty hounded the bishop, so he borrowed and cadged like a Franciscan beggar of old.
Owing money and at a dead-end, she decides to head to Phoenix to cadge some dough from her ex-best friend Lavinia, now an arch-conservative with two children and a husband who knows nothing of her past.
Cats who have to scavenge and cadge and sleep out in bad weather in the big cities do not live long. ON CATS
Amiss had an almost overwhelming desire to cadge a cigarette in order to demonstrate solidarity, but he repressed it.
The latter may in fact end up in the back garden, joining one we intend to transplant from the front, and another that we've cadged from a neighbour.
I managed to cadge a ride with a lorry driver.
They get the chance to cadge a bit of his energy and charisma.
SPONGE stresses the parasitic laziness, dependence, and opportunism of the cadger a shiftless sponge, always looking for a handout. Firedoglake » Bush’s Favorite Democrat Wows the Connecticut Press — Again
You may be able to cadge a tin of warm water for shaving.
Ye'll see them i 'the mornin' gaen awa 'berfit to the skule, an' a seerip piece i 'their hand, wi' fient o 'hand or face o' them washen, an 'their claes as greasy as a cadger's pooch. My Man Sandy
I do not know precisely what 'cadger' means, but I imagine it to be a character like me, liable to headache, to sea-sickness, to all the infirmities 'that flesh is heir to,' and a few others besides; the friends and relations of cadgers should therefore use all soft persuasions to induce them to remain at home. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
I cadged a lift back to the station in Roger's car, which was kind of him.
I cadged tobacco, poor cheap tobacco, from poor doddering old chaps trembling on the edge of dissolution. CHAPTER XIII
You cannot keep your hawk on the cadge for ever -- ah, nor hood her for ever!
And it was scarcely to be supposed the poet of the Roisín Dubh had in mind the coming of a shoneen talking-house, a gombeen legislature scrounged and cadged for by whiskey-swilling fixers in the imperial Parliament across the sea. At Swim, Two Boys
I don't remember how I got there, but I suppose I must have cadged a lift from someone.
Observe as a cabal of billionaires cadges an election and takes over the country, waging war and short-sheeting the citizenry.
They preferred to go out generally without the falconer, a Dutchman, who had been taken into the service of Sir Nicholas thirty years before when things had been more prosperous; it was less embarrassing so; but they would have a lad to carry the "cadge," and a pony following them to carry the game. By What Authority?
He was a sharp dresser and smooth talker imbued with the mysterious charm of the confidence man, an expert cadger of handouts from relatives, friends, and total strangers. Colossus
Although many British journalists of my acquaintance verge on the dissolute - sloppy drunks trying to cadge a free meal - Michael, an American who was shortly to become an English legend, outdid them all.
Coals he could get from Hall, also occasional half-crowns; these sufficed to pay for his breakfast; a dinner he could generally "cadge," and if he failed to do so, he had long ago learnt to go without. Mike Fletcher A Novel
The sky was beginning to lighten and he should be back on the highway, trying to cadge a lift while he had the strength. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
“O cadger, why not answer me when I first called to thee?” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It only took six days to run out of money, and then everyone got together and cadged money off relatives to continue the shoot.
A cadger is a carrier who travels between town and country with butter, eggs, and shop-wares or someone who sells things in the street.
Walked on th 'bleedin' hoof, too, from Macassar to here, an 'cadged at th' Gold Out of Celebes
Minas knew everyone, having cadged dinners and so-called symposia out of most people who had a dining room or a courtyard that lay close to a good wine cellar. See Delphi and Die
As well as being a self-described cadger, he was - if not a cad, a seducer. The Times Literary Supplement
And it was scarcely to be supposed the poet of the Roisín Dubh had in mind the coming of a shoneen talking-house, a gombeen legislature scrounged and cadged for by whiskey-swilling fixers in the imperial Parliament across the sea. At Swim, Two Boys
To cadging make a living as a performer person clear the standard also had clear, pester repeatedly namely, beg forcibly the person that reach the means with other and mobbish other to cadge.
He and Nolan cadged free rides on trams driven by Nolan's father.
For ages the trunk road from east to west passed close by, the old hotel at Kingswell ‘Cadgers’ Knowe, marks the camping ground of cadgers and humbler folks.
A car thief who hits his first wife so hard that he broke his thumb, Dean is a shiftless alcoholic cadger who dumps three wives over the three years in which the book takes place, leaving his children littered across the landscape. A Manual to Freedom
Could I cadge a lift with you?
Amiss had an almost overwhelming desire to cadge a cigarette in order to demonstrate solidarity, but he repressed it.
People started to cadge invitations to see our au pair, and across the nation we British were briefly seized by the same deeply embarrassing tropical madness.
A famous cadger, he had a kamikaze predilection for turning on benefactors and friends.
Just twenty-three years old, Washington had a compulsion to brag while he cadged money. George Washington’s First War
Can I cadge a lift home?
Our poor neighbours sometimes cadged food from us.
I cadged a lift from Joanna.
The sky was beginning to lighten and he should be back on the highway, trying to cadge a lift while he had the strength. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
A self-confessed cadger from Dersingham has been given a huge thank you by the personnel for the support she has given to their Kenyan appeal.
Well, for a start, I've only ever been a very occasional smoker - I cadge cigarettes off people when I'm very drunk and then always regret it the next morning when I not only wake up with a thumping hangover, but also with a mouth like an ashtray.
The boy used to cadge cigarettes from Taylor but they lost touch only to run into each other more than a year later when the victim was aged 15-years-old.
Muhammad Mossadeq came from a wealthy family of landowners who had served a minister to the Cadgers.
He might as well walk up to Redall Farmhouse and see if he could cadge a cup of tea there. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
He could cadge a ride from somebody.
So long as a cadger [from the Scandinavian word for "huckster"] is generous in turn (though not necessarily in kind), he ought not to be considered a deadbeat, freeloader, or sponger. Boing Boing

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