Sentence examples for blagged in from inspiring English sources

The only downside I've experienced has involved the realisation that, if writing a 'Who book means you're cool and all your free copies get blagged in a week, you must previously have been uncool and had books no one was that bothered about.

While it sounds like the kind of dummies' guide you might pick up at the airport, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read is less an etiquette guide on how to blag in literary circles (although it does deal with this) than a witty meditation on what it means not to have read a book.

Fraudsters using "social engineering" techniques - or blagging in the vernacular - were able to elicit security details from agents.

Poor bloke - he had obviously been blagged to in the past.

I ended up backstage at the Roots tent watching Damian, Stephen and Ziggy Marley, after one of the 3am girls blagged us in.

Similarly, they were told very little of the paper's use of Steve Whittamore, who blagged information illegally, culminating in his conviction in court in April 2005.

Mind you, so far the Moroccan tilt at a revival has been promising: they've blagged two corners in the last two minutes.

Each day one of our party diligently raced down to the beach at 7am and blagged four beds in a prime spot - leaving towels, bonkbusters, buckets and spades sprinkled on top to ensure our position.

It didn't feel all that safe to have blagged a ticket in the wrong end for a big FA Cup match away at West Ham, once the packed terrace began singing: "I'd rather be a Paki than a Scouse".

America, of course, thought this titty English witch was definitely guilty: a sort of anti-Poppins who blagged her way in on an au pairing visa purely so she could force spoonfuls of arsenic down the throats of as many Yank children as possible.

Instead, my publisher, Honno, blagged me a slot in the Literature in Wales stand.