Example Sentences

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The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was mooching.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2022

He was mooching around film sets and premières, and the parts began rolling in.

From Economist • Jun. 9, 2016

Mick Eve, sax player for Georgie Fame’s Blue Flames, was mooching around the musical instrument shops in London’s Denmark Street as one did in 1966.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2014

I'd probably not long since read the actual Lord of the Rings when I was mooching around a bookshop near the front and plucked out this slim, imported paperback.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2011

She had expected a rippling stream, and, to her disappointment, saw only a broad strip of dry sand, along which Moongarr Bill was mooching, a spade in his hand.

From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Praed, Campbell, Mrs.