How To Use Sponger In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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The prevalent idea that immigrants are spongers is also refuted by the data.
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So does it make you a sponger to get money from the State to buy a baby's buggy?
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Also last week, Mr Blair's welfare system came under fire for promoting professional spongers.
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They believe social welfare recipients are spongers who could find work if they only got on their bike.
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These people are spongers and are chancing their arm.
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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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But after that, she declined into a fog of faux gaiety; of endless tedium alleviated by white-trash boyfriends, spongers, snobs and poseurs.
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We also want to show people we are not spongers, but ordinary people, like anyone else.
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Asylum-seekers and refugees are not spongers and freeloaders, according to Minister O'Donoghue.
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Looks like I'll never be a decent sponger, at least not consciously.
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Yet these men are the real spongers who literally rob us of millions.
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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’.
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MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
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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.
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Although not nearly as graceful as sponging dolphins, "which are really elegant in their moves," Patterson says, the human sponger nonetheless managed to scare up a hidden prey fish every 9 minutes.
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Although not nearly as graceful as sponging dolphins, "which are really elegant in their moves," Patterson says, the human sponger nonetheless managed to scare up a hidden prey fish every 9 minutes.
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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’.
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The world seemed to consist of spongers like Marc, supporters like Christopher, and victims like Francis.
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As a consequence they were parasites and spongers.
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He was a sponger even when he had money of his own.
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‘The fact that the vast majority of recently arrived asylum seekers are excluded from the workplace creates a situation where they are seen as spongers,’ he believes.
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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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These journeys would take great courage and stamina - a fact that is hard to square with the common perception of immigrants as work-shy spongers.
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MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
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That huge sums could be diverted to those in genuine need - not least the mentally ill - if the spongers were stopped seems to fall on deaf ears.
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The message from the Committee is if you watch the picture please pay up and don't be a sponger.
