How to Use mooch in a Sentence

mooch

verb
  • I suspect she's mooching around in the background and keeping an eye on us.
  • West shore has been kicking out fish to those jigging or mooching.
    — sacbee, 10 Oct. 2017
  • When a large school is found, anglers will switch from trolling to mooching gear to produce quick limits.
    — Mike Campbell, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Aug. 2017
  • The irony is, I’ve been more mooched then Benna Moocher, trust me.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 Mar. 2018
  • In other words, viruses mooch off cells, so without cells, viruses can’t exist.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2014
  • 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
  • And some of you freeloaders, who mooch the password to other peoples’ accounts, are partly to blame.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 21 Apr. 2022
  • From the fossils alone, the researchers couldn’t prove whether these insects were pollinators or just mooching for food.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Most wedding crashers will mooch a couple glasses of wine and maybe an appetizer.
    — Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 3 June 2018
  • Netflix may be converting mooching nieces, nephews, and ex-lovers into paying subscribers for now.
    — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Costco has made numerous efforts to stop membership mooching in recent years.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
  • In recent years, the wholesaler has made multiple efforts to ice out freeloaders who try to mooch off friends’ memberships.
    — Angela L. Pagán / The Takeout, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Her family wants to mooch off her success while also criticizing her success.
    — Lydia Patrick, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Where teens mooch away afternoons savoring their content-free existence.
    — Alex Beam, WSJ, 10 June 2022
  • On top of that, Nico is also, quite obviously, just mooching off/clinging to Mindy because he got cut off by his family.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Just mooch off your neighbor's vacuum and clean up the smaller messes with this awesome OXO dustpan.
    — Gear Team, Wired, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Sea Wolf wanted it all one day so started with bass and halibut in the Bay then ran outside to mooch up some halibut and then fish for rockfish and lingcod.
    — sacbee, 3 July 2017
  • 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
  • After all, it can be argued that Truman Capote mooched off of those richer and more socially prominent than himself.
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 30 June 2023
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, her brother is in the midst of a mental health crisis, two mooching boarders are taking advantage of her oblivious father, and her mother offers little emotional support.
    — Vikram Murthi, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This idea, that American allies are mooching off the United States, has political as well as economic implications.
    — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 31 May 2018
  • China’s Silicon Valley–slayer may have mooched off Silicon Valley after all.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Anyway, my friend and I were able to mooch a ride from him to that wonderful institution known as LAX, land of inconvenience, confusion, disdain and dirty bathrooms.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 26 Feb. 2025
  • On Tuesday the streaming company warned that only people who live under the same roof can share accounts, leaving subscribers to decide whether to jettison friends and family mooching off their accounts or pony up an additional $8 monthly fee.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • The exchange seemed to show real feelings and judgments — that the Europeans are mooching and that any American military action, no matter how clearly in American interests as well, should be somehow paid for by other beneficiaries.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025

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