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Significados de sponger em inglês

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A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage.

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        Examples for "sponge"
        Examples for "sponge"
        1
        Need a new iOS app to sponge up all your free time?
        Wired
        2
        I've given you sponge and sonic baths every day... including this morning.
        The Hyperion Cantos
        3
        The chloroform sponge had done its miraculous work and was set aside.
        Funeral in Blue
        4
        Here is the sponge; I do not know where the gloves are.
        The Mettle of the Pasture
        5
        Often times it suggested to buy a cleanser just for the sponge.
        Ebony
        1
        Beekeepers Association president Ricki Leahy said the parasite was a growing problem.
        Radio NZ
        2
        However, the host-parasite interactions responsible for initiating this response are poorly understood.
        Pubmed
        3
        Quantifying parasite importation has therefore become a priority for national control programs.
        Pubmed
        4
        Background: Many different intestinal parasite species can co-occur in the same population.
        Pubmed
        5
        Perhaps one reason is to help warn us against impending parasite attack.
        The Irish Times
        1
        The leech came and confirmed the fact.-Thehouse was closed and barred.
        The Bride of the Nile — Volume 12
        2
        The king hardening himself as the leech assumed a more lofty tone:
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
        3
        And now all the evening he sucked the books like a leech.
        It Is Never Too Late to Mend
        4
        I would try venesection; then cup, if necessary, or leech the temple.
        Hard Cash
        5
        The leech farm makes a tidy profit shipping them to doctors worldwide.
        Reuters
        Uso de sponger em inglês
        1
        I firmly believe in the European vision, but I reject sponger membership.
        The Irish Times
        2
        The rammer and sponger lay by the side of the small field-piece.
        The Junior Classics, Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories
        3
        You will become a dependent in this house, a hanger-on, a sponger.
        Love, the Fiddler
        4
        He was not a sponger, but a man working for his breakfast.
        The Fourth Watch
        5
        Instead of consulting people of experience-ps ,ps ,ps-firstsponger that comes along.
        The Nabob
        6
        It was mean, and yet what was he himself but a sponger?
        The Fourth Watch
        7
        He felt he was no longer a sponger, a useless being.
        The Fourth Watch
        8
        Horse Chasseur acting as a communist artillery man, attended by a gamin sponger.
        Paris under the Commune / The Seventy-Three Days of the Second S...
        9
        To get, and give nothing in return; to be a sucker and a sponger.
        The Fourth Watch
        10
        Banqueter was the word used for sponger in his day; what does he say?
        The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
        11
        Then a sponger fell, and then the gunner himself was slain by the bullet.
        The Texan Star: The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty
        12
        Then we walked down to his row-boat, and soon he was aboard the sponger.
        Pieces of Eight / Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Di...
        13
        I'm going to leave you here-andI'm going to charter the sponger out there.
        Pieces of Eight / Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Di...
        14
        The wise Homer, admiring the sponger's life as the only blissful enviable one, has this:
        The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
        15
        I hate a sponger, and so did my father.
        The Fourth Watch
        16
        But what sort of a guess do you make at the sponger's behaviour in war?
        The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
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        Translations for sponger
        Sponger ao longo do tempo