Example sentences for: sponger

How can you use “sponger” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Maenius with great spirit squandered all The inheritance he had from his father and mother, And so became an extra man and sponger, A parasite with no fixed place of his own, Who when he needed a dinner would gladly dine out On vicious scandal he spread with impartial justice About both friend and foe.

  • Rather like the more recent scungy which, after years of use in Scots and Irish for a sly or vicious person, a sponger, suddenly found itself in vogue as a word connoting the general sordidness of modern youth.


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