Sentence examples for freeload off from inspiring English sources
The phrase "freeload off" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe the act of taking advantage of someone else's resources or generosity without contributing anything in return. Example: "He tends to freeload off his friends, always expecting them to pay for his meals."
(Though churches are free, I admit the works of art look better if you pop a euro coin into the "Per L'Illuminazione" slot and light them up. With a bit of patience you can usually freeload off someone else's glow).
The more generous each contributor, the better the group did as a whole, but there was always the risk of a participant's trying to freeload off the contributions of others.
Uncertainty and lack of income are a much greater threat to the economy than the "threat" that someone might freeload off of unemployment benefits.
Until the PayPal IPO in 2002, Parker was forced to live a vagrant sort of life, "sleeping on couches," and setting up rules "about how long I'd freeload off of any one individual".
Don't just freeload off of your friends.
You don't want them to think you are just going to freeload off of them.
We got these lazy people freeloading off the government.
But she and the others had far more complaints about locals freeloading off public assistance than about the health-insurance industry and corporations.
If we were rating the former premiers' holidays on a "How in touch with Labour's roots are you?" scale, Brown's arrangements would merit Four Cloth Caps, while it is obvious that freeloading off Silvio Berlusconi is a Nil Cap.
As a government we are clear that: When people switch on, no matter what device they are using, PSB channels should be easy to find Our PSBs should not have to pay other platforms and service providers to carry their content, especially given the clear value this content provides And websites should not be freeloading off PSBs' content.
When the New York Times interviewed Donald Trump in March, one of the reporters, David Sanger, suggested that Trump's foreign policy could be summed up as "America First" — "a mistrust of many foreigners, both our adversaries and some of our allies, a sense that they've been freeloading off of us for many years".
