How To Use Hanger-on In A Sentence

Nietzsche's alpha grandmother and two spinster aunts treated his meek, young mother like a hanger-on.
At some point the word slipped its etymological harness and came to mean a hanger-on, someone who could get the occasional meal from a nobleman by pleasing him with good conversation, delivering messages, or doing some other job. Parasite Rex
But if you're tagging along for the adoration you get by being her bud, eventually people will see that you're just a hanger-on.
Well, he's a friend of the band, or more likely a desperate, Tweedy-worshipping hanger-on, which is obvious from the movie's idolatrous tone.
Co-founder Eduardo Saverin's girlfriend is a psychotic and needy hanger-on. Jessica Massa: The Social Network : Where Are All the Girls?

By the end he sees that in the house of the film star he is regarded as ‘a lackey, a sponger, a pathetic hanger-on’.
By the end he sees that in the house of the film star he is regarded as ‘a lackey, a sponger, a pathetic hanger-on’.
an indolent hanger-on
A hanger-on ran up to her with a collection of shipping tallies and informed her of the status of the ship.
He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a sycophant.
What I won't admit to anybody but you folks (hanger-ons, stalkers, friends, passerby, internet whackem offs, and et ceteras) is that I don't know Wordsworth from wormswood or Shelley from Shel Silverstein (scratch, I KNOW me some Silverstein). Joegood Diary Entry