mooch - use in sentences

Object

  • round: Instead of having a leisurely mooch round the garden centers, n then having a whack at Golf, wev been cleaning!

Preposition: through

  • section: Take the time to mooch through each section and discover those special concoctions to make your evening go with a bang.

Preposition: around

  • shop: Mooch around the shops in the warren of quaint, narrow streets which radiate from the old Town Market Square.
  • town: Finally, I think I prefer eating out in Hurghada, and particularly mooching around the old town.

Modifying Another Word

  • just: No longer are you just mooching around in the dark silently snapping necks.
  • generally: Anna and I took the opportunity to do a bit of maths together, and some drawing, and mooching generally.
  • around: If you prefer just to mooch quietly around at your own pace, then why not do that?

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • around: Food consumed, we mooched around for a few hours, much coffee was drunk.
  • along: He mooched along, pulling up the collar of his jacket against the rain.
  • off: All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • around: Just can't have a good mooch around the local shops with a man can you!
  • off: We figure that the reason that he was alive was that he was mooching off the various camps.
  • away: Hidden off a great little cluster of hideaway streets just right for mooching away sodden afternoons in the middle of a gray London autumns.

Particle object: around_obj

  • house: The only kind of activity allowed is basic cooking, and mooching around the house gently in your slippers.
  • town: Fleisher's Hotel, Voss Took the camera and had a mooch around the town, which was not that big.
  • shop: Just can't have a good mooch around the local shops with a man can you!

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