How to Use cadge in a Sentence

cadge

verb

• She cadged money from her sister.
• Mike, Judith says, would cadge free pizza by offering to climb to the top of his barracks.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 May 2018
• One recent morning, a man dropped by Mr. Mishurov’s farmyard office to cadge a bucket of corn for his hens.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
• The vast majority of dogs run free in villages, scavenge food at dumps, cadge the odd handout and cause tens of thousands of human deaths each year from rabies.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2016
• But their games last night devolved into dissertations on solo play while the other starters hung around the 3-point line like beggars hoping to cadge quarters from the stars.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 15 May 2018
• What started with independent groups of skaters cadging together D.I.Y. skate parks out of concrete and scrap wood grew into a movement to make the entire city a skate park.
  — Jeff Ihaza, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
• A little later, when American troops were stationed nearby, the Chancellor children would try to cadge chewing gum off them.
  — Henry Porter, The Hive, 13 Mar. 2017
• Several calves, their fur a chestnut brown that will later turn white, scurried alongside their mothers adorably, cadging an occasional sip of milk.
  — Maria Russo, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2019
• Malloch never minded hospital food and would often cadge a lunch and stay on for dinner, delighting in the conversation in-between.
  — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 29 June 2019
• The conventional wisdom had been to cadge donations by artful or emotional pitches, to engage people’s idealism or politics.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
• Its influence extended well beyond U.S. borders: Fidel Castro was an enthusiastic reader, and his speeches cadged from it, though without giving credit.
  — Glenn Garvin, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2018
• His long Gershwin gig — signing autographs, reminiscing and lecturing on cruise ships and at concerts, cadging freebies and attention at jazz clubs and cabarets — was too enjoyable and, occasionally, lucrative.
  — David Margolick, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024