Sentence examples for sponger from inspiring English sources
The word 'sponger' is correct and usable in written English
The word is used to describe someone who takes advantage of others, either financially or emotionally. For example, you could say: "He's been relying on his parents for money for years—he's nothing but a sponger!"
noun
One who uses a sponge.
She is divorced from her Communist husband, a ridiculous fraud with the nom de guerre Comrade Johnny, and she lives with their two sons in the house of her former mother-in-law, Julia, who also considers Johnny a sponger and a fool.
She would expect dinner, replete with discreet refreshments of her wineglass, strong filtered coffee every morning, and — what cost older people more than a sponger in her early twenties realized — steady conversational energy channelled in her direction for the duration of her stay.
Smith was an artist and record collector from Seattle — "a polymath and an autodidact, a dope fiend and an alcoholic, a legendary experimental filmmaker and a more legendary sponger," as Greil Marcus put it in his book "Invisible Republic" (1997).
The family is completed by Lawrence's adopted brother (Thomas Haden Church), a sweet-natured but stunningly unemployable sponger, who plops his body down in the house and stays.
No one confessed to being a home wrecker, although, apparently, various respondents did admit to practicing the métiers of axeman, bootlegger, gang leader, knockdown man, roughneck, roustabout, rabbit fancier, roving hand, slasher, skull grinder, sponger, and spooner.
He was a sponger and petty thief whom Elliot had seen a number of times before.
The German backlash was severe, with the media denouncing Greek spongers and feckless southern Europeans while attacking Merkel for betraying the principles supposed to underpin the euro.
There are more efficient ways of catching benefit-spongers or illegal immigrants than stopping shady-looking characters in the street: Britain itself has just launched a campaign against benefit fraud and introduced a law to fine employers who hire illegal workers.
Locals, however, have the impression that their visitors are predominantly male and hang around in gangs.Editorials in two local newspapers, the Dover Express and the Folkestone Herald, have not helped, accusing asylum-seekers of being welfare spongers, thieves and brothel-keepers.
But it is a messy situation; and it brings home, as this report will do, the fact that poor immigrants can be victims as well as spongers.
The best Mr Obama has to offer America is "a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next," says his running-mate, Paul Ryan, exaggerating just a smidgeon.At Republican rallies, lots of Romney supporters describe an America unmanned by welfare, and divided between taxpayers and spongers.
