How to Use mooch in a Sentence
mooch
verb- I suspect she's mooching around in the background and keeping an eye on us.
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The irony is, I’ve been more mooched then Benna Moocher, trust me.
—Recode Staff, Recode, 22 Mar. 2018
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And some of you freeloaders, who mooch the password to other peoples’ accounts, are partly to blame.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 21 Apr. 2022
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Jackson isn't just a flighty teenager mooching off the Jackson name, though, and her struggles are very much real.
—Devon Ivie, Glamour, 22 June 2017
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This is mooching to the extreme, because these neighbors seem to have taken your spousal trust in one another.
—Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
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Let the Dateline, frozen yogurt, and mooching continue.
—Joanna Robinson, Vanities, 5 Feb. 2017
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Long story short: Costco memberships start at $60, so your time mooching off its food court for free could be running out.
—cleveland, 24 Feb. 2020
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In other words, viruses mooch off cells, so without cells, viruses can’t exist.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2014
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Just mooch off your neighbor's vacuum and clean up the smaller messes with this awesome OXO dustpan.
—Gear Team, Wired, 10 Aug. 2021
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With his two gun dogs mooching before a wood fire, Wood betrays a certain weariness of the Beaminster rumor mill, which never stops turning.
—David Usborne, Town & Country, 29 May 2018
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Much of Wrangell looked unchanged since 1899: false-front buildings and clapboard churches, including one where Muir had mooched a night sleeping on the floor his first night on Alaska soil.
—Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2018
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Much of Wrangell looked unchanged since 1899: false-front buildings and clapboard churches, including one where Muir had mooched a night sleeping on the floor his very first night on Alaska soil.
—Mark Adams, New York Times, 21 May 2018
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Most wedding crashers will mooch a couple glasses of wine and maybe an appetizer.
—Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 3 June 2018
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The town’s two suspension bridges, wide enough for a few people, are clogged with Indians in saris, Westerners in harem pants, honking motorbikes, dung-dropping cows and mooching monkeys.
—Patrick Scott, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
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So many ingredients, too, are mooched from Shakespeare and Rostand, the only original elements sound like the songs.
—Lee Williams, OregonLive.com, 14 Aug. 2017
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Indeed, there appears to be a growing perception that CHIP recipients are mooching off of taxpayers.
—Jessica Mendoza, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2017
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This idea, that American allies are mooching off the United States, has political as well as economic implications.
—Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 31 May 2018
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Over time, Koonin argues, the parasitic genetic elements remained unable to replicate on their own and evolved into modern-day viruses that mooch off their cellular hosts.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2014
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Where teens mooch away afternoons savoring their content-free existence.
—Alex Beam, WSJ, 10 June 2022
- I suspect she's mooching around in the background and keeping an eye on us.
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The irony is, I’ve been more mooched then Benna Moocher, trust me.
—Recode Staff, Recode, 22 Mar. 2018
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And some of you freeloaders, who mooch the password to other peoples’ accounts, are partly to blame.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 21 Apr. 2022
-
Jackson isn't just a flighty teenager mooching off the Jackson name, though, and her struggles are very much real.
—Devon Ivie, Glamour, 22 June 2017
-
This is mooching to the extreme, because these neighbors seem to have taken your spousal trust in one another.
—Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
-
Let the Dateline, frozen yogurt, and mooching continue.
—Joanna Robinson, Vanities, 5 Feb. 2017
-
Long story short: Costco memberships start at $60, so your time mooching off its food court for free could be running out.
—cleveland, 24 Feb. 2020
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In other words, viruses mooch off cells, so without cells, viruses can’t exist.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2014
-
Just mooch off your neighbor's vacuum and clean up the smaller messes with this awesome OXO dustpan.
—Gear Team, Wired, 10 Aug. 2021
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With his two gun dogs mooching before a wood fire, Wood betrays a certain weariness of the Beaminster rumor mill, which never stops turning.
—David Usborne, Town & Country, 29 May 2018
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Much of Wrangell looked unchanged since 1899: false-front buildings and clapboard churches, including one where Muir had mooched a night sleeping on the floor his first night on Alaska soil.
—Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2018
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