How to Use mooch in a Sentence

mooch

verb

• I suspect she's mooching around in the background and keeping an eye on us.
• The irony is, I’ve been more mooched then Benna Moocher, trust me.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Most wedding crashers will mooch a couple glasses of wine and maybe an appetizer.
  — Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 3 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This idea, that American allies are mooching off the United States, has political as well as economic implications.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 31 May 2018
• 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
• 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.
• The irony is, I’ve been more mooched then Benna Moocher, trust me.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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