How to Use freeload in a Sentence

freeload

verb

• 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
• Netflix is trying to push freeloading Netflix users to buy subscriptions.
  — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• 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
• With Netflix preparing to crack down on password sharing, most of us probably can’t afford random acquaintances or total strangers freeloading off our Netflix accounts.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• 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
• News organizations are struggling to stay alive while huge internet platforms that benefit financially from journalism are freeloading from content providers.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024