are sponging
- present progressive of sponge.
Example Sentences
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Stand by your swell friends, and toss it into my teeth that I and mine are sponging on you for a living, and you want your money.
From A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by King, Charles
But even supposing the case that one's friend has money, why, the presumption is, that he must have borrowed it himself; so that you are sponging upon his ingenuity, not his income.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James
