sponger

How To Use sponger In A Sentence

• But he also set an undisputed world record, for the number of aides, acolytes, spongers and hangers-on that he assembled in one place at the same time.
• The Loader and Sponger pass the frapping lashing round both parts of the breeching, in front of the brackets, and with the assistance of the men nearest them bowse it well taut; and secure the muzzle by placing the grommet over it and the housing hook-bolt, and by frapping the two parts together with the lashing. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
• The prevalent idea that immigrants are spongers is also refuted by the data.
• So does it make you a sponger to get money from the State to buy a baby's buggy?
• Also last week, Mr Blair's welfare system came under fire for promoting professional spongers.
• They believe social welfare recipients are spongers who could find work if they only got on their bike.
• These people are spongers and are chancing their arm.
• 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
• But after that, she declined into a fog of faux gaiety; of endless tedium alleviated by white-trash boyfriends, spongers, snobs and poseurs.
• We also want to show people we are not spongers, but ordinary people, like anyone else.