have been sponging

• present perfect progressive

  present perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.

  of sponge.
  sponge

  noun

  any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.

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have been sponging

Well, after all, you have been sponging off them for a full year.

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

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