How to Use freeload in a Sentence

freeload

verb

• And the fish—usually different kinds of goatfish—were freeloading.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 23 Sep. 2024
• Netflix is trying to push freeloading Netflix users to buy subscriptions.
  — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• NimbleBit, for example, goes to great pains to make its games accessible to paying and freeloading gamers alike.
  — Mark Brown, WIRED, 30 June 2011
• Are your only career options workaholic or freeloading bohemian?
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2019
• Part of last year’s subscription growth flowed from a crackdown on viewers who had been freeloading off Netflix subscribers who shared their account passwords.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 8 June 2024
• Alexander Pirozzi willingly left when his girlfriend kicked him out of her Sebastian apartment for freeloading.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 14 Jan. 2018
• If the government mandates that Alphabet break up, the company’s many freeloading children would have to take care of themselves.
  — Adam Seessel, Fortune, 26 July 2019
• And foreign governments are freeloading off of our investments in innovation.
  — Robert Pear, New York Times, 10 May 2018
• Bojack has a freeloading permanent houseguest named Todd (Aaron Paul), another human in the mix.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 11 Sep. 2017
• Whatever leftover food the fat innkeeper doesn't eat gets gobbled up by other bottom-dwellers such as crab, shrimp, and clams, which take up residence inside these burrows to freeload off of the worm.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2019
• Otherwise, imposing the planning and cost burden on the Secret Service is just a way for a campaign to freeload off taxpayers.
  — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• The benefits of a breakup The crux of it is that Google’s core search business is so profitable that the rest of Alphabet’s many subsidiaries are freeloading off it.
  — Adam Seessel, Fortune, 26 July 2019
• Adult children who are basically capable should not be freeloading off their parents, depleting their retirement accounts.
  — John Rosemond, ajc, 10 Apr. 2020
• But if freeloading fish are hovering around, looking to benefit from the hunt without contributing, the octopus punches them away, according to new research.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
• The company added 6 million subscribers last quarter after the streaming company began to hassle users to get their own accounts rather than freeload off another household’s.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 20 July 2023
• News organizations are struggling to stay alive while huge internet platforms that benefit financially from journalism are freeloading from content providers.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• Scientists tracking humpbacks off the coast of Australia have captured rare footage that shows clutches of the freeloading fish peeling away from their host in what looks like a high-speed game of chicken, just moments before the whale breaches.
  — CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
• With Netflix preparing to crack down on password sharing, most of us probably can’t afford random acquaintances or total strangers freeloading off our Netflix accounts.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• Both Russian and Chinese firms are discovering that their ability to freeload off the liberal international order has been compromised.
  — Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2023
• In October, Netflix introduced the Profile Transfer function to encourage freeloading users to register for their own accounts.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 11 July 2023
• The specter of freeloading corporations using more space, water, and energy for AI processing has defined the race for the 30th House of Delegates district, well outside DC.
  — David Weigel, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025