How to Use freeload in a Sentence

freeload

verb
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  • A freeloading fledging will wait by the beach for an adult to return from hunting, turn up their beaks, and shriek for food—a behavior learned as chicks.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2017
  • The benefits of a breakup The crux of it is that Google’s core search business is so profitable that the rest of Alphabet’s many subsidiaries are freeloading off it.
    — Adam Seessel, Fortune, 26 July 2019
  • Nor is there firm evidence that bosses are freeloading.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • NimbleBit, for example, goes to great pains to make its games accessible to paying and freeloading gamers alike.
    — Mark Brown, WIRED, 30 June 2011
  • The left-field wall, part of Fenway’s original construction in 1912, was meant to prevent freeloading fans from viewing the action from Lansdowne Street.
    — Rob Fleder, Newsweek, 17 May 2017
  • If the government mandates that Alphabet break up, the company’s many freeloading children would have to take care of themselves.
    — Adam Seessel, Fortune, 26 July 2019
  • Bojack has a freeloading permanent houseguest named Todd (Aaron Paul), another human in the mix.
    — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Whatever leftover food the fat innkeeper doesn't eat gets gobbled up by other bottom-dwellers such as crab, shrimp, and clams, which take up residence inside these burrows to freeload off of the worm.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Alexander Pirozzi willingly left when his girlfriend kicked him out of her Sebastian apartment for freeloading.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 14 Jan. 2018
  • And foreign governments are freeloading off of our investments in innovation.
    — Robert Pear, New York Times, 10 May 2018
  • Are your only career options workaholic or freeloading bohemian?
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Adult children who are basically capable should not be freeloading off their parents, depleting their retirement accounts.
    — John Rosemond, ajc, 10 Apr. 2020

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