Sentence examples for cadge from from inspiring English sources

At one point, he had had a wife and a house in the suburbs; now he was, he said, engaged in his own metaphysical exercise of living in the open on what he could cadge from people in passing cars.

So no full time job, just two blocks of 12 weeks per year teaching as many hours per week as she can cadge from those lucky enough to have salaried work.

He'd been drinking codeine cough syrup in the men's room of the Armenian Foundation Library in ghastly central Watertown, MA, for over a week, darting out from cover only to beg a scrip from the hideous Equus Reese and then dash in at Brooks Pharmacy, wearing a simply vile ensemble of synthetic-fibre slacks and suspenders and tweed Donegal cap he'd had to cadge from a longshoremen's union hall.

But sometimes, when all else fails, flights end up being cadged from frankly unsavoury jet-owners.

The archive will be browsable by subgenre in wooden wine boxes cadged from the nearby Averys.

But too many of the styles, notably army-green cape jackets and asymmetrical skirts, seem cadged from other designers.

Decorative wrought-iron buttresses jut from the brick walls and glass panels, cadged from the Pan Am Building, hang over the bar.

Ed arrived in a short-sleeved tattersall shirt with a black tie that he'd cadged from the concierge at the hotel.

In Mr. Romney's dorm closet hung parts of a Michigan state trooper's uniform, apparently cadged from his father's security detail.

This punchline, cadged from a Bob Mankoff comic set in a corporate boardroom, perfectly sums up last week's Accelerating Sustainability Forum, which was sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

With none of the federal dollars Moses cadged from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mr. Stern has unleashed thousands of welfare workers, made available by the mayor to do cleaning and maintenance.