How to Use cadge in a Sentence
cadge
verb- She cadged money from her sister.
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Mike, Judith says, would cadge free pizza by offering to climb to the top of his barracks.
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John Kelly,
Washington Post,
27 May 2018
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Most reporters struggled to cadge a ride to the more distant fronts with the dirty soldiers who kept Franco’s forces at bay.
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Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
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The vast majority of dogs run free in villages, scavenge food at dumps, cadge the odd handout and cause tens of thousands of human deaths each year from rabies.
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James Gorman,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2016
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Several calves, their fur a chestnut brown that will later turn white, scurried alongside their mothers adorably, cadging an occasional sip of milk.
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Maria Russo,
New York Times,
16 Sep. 2019
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But their games last night devolved into dissertations on solo play while the other starters hung around the 3-point line like beggars hoping to cadge quarters from the stars.
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Michael Powell,
New York Times,
15 May 2018
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Malloch never minded hospital food and would often cadge a lunch and stay on for dinner, delighting in the conversation in-between.
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Sam Whiting,
SFChronicle.com,
29 June 2019
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A little later, when American troops were stationed nearby, the Chancellor children would try to cadge chewing gum off them.
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Henry Porter,
The Hive,
13 Mar. 2017
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These signals were identified decades ago, but scientists originally interpreted them as a begging call, intended to cadge some food of another worker.
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Ed Yong,
Discover Magazine,
11 Feb. 2010
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The conventional wisdom had been to cadge donations by artful or emotional pitches, to engage people’s idealism or politics.
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Steven Levy,
Wired,
12 Feb. 2021
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To her horrified astonishment, Miss Manners has received a number of letters reporting that guests are taking gross advantage of hospitality by cadging future meals.
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Judith Martin,
Sun Sentinel,
12 May 2026
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His long Gershwin gig — signing autographs, reminiscing and lecturing on cruise ships and at concerts, cadging freebies and attention at jazz clubs and cabarets — was too enjoyable and, occasionally, lucrative.
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David Margolick,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2018
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