Sample Sentences for
vagrant
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    Walt and Billie never knew they were hosting a vagrant.  (source)
    vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
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    It makes you look like some kind of vagrant.  (source)
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    From time to time, a vagrant or a wino would wander through the front door, assuming the house was deserted.  (source)
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    The next morning, when I arrived at work in another jeans and sneakers ensemble, she seemed startled, as if some strange vagrant had made a wrong turn into the office.  (source)
    vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
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    It was a hundred and ten degrees, easy, and we must've looked like deep-fried vagrants, but everybody was too interested in the wild animals to pay us much attention.  (source)
    vagrants = people who are poor and have no regular home or job
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    Police record: 3 arrests for vagrancy.  (source)
    vagrancy = the crime of hanging around without a home or job (and typically asking for money)
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    But Baby Warren wanted to talk to Dick, wanted to talk to him with the impetus that sent her out vagrantly toward all new men, as though she were on an inelastic tether and considered that she might as well get to the end of it as soon as possible.†  (source)
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    Appearing in the media, he usually looked disheveled, like a vagrant, but today, he was dressed sharply in a suit and dress shoes.  (source)
    vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
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    Uncle Vernon had then treated the family to a long rant about what he would like to do with beggars and vagrants.  (source)
    vagrants = people who are poor and have no regular home or job
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    Lucien looked and smelled like a skid row bum they'd picked up for vagrancy.†  (source)
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    The man standing in front of the latrines shouting out, "Hallelujah, Hallelujah," had been a vagrant on the streets of Oakland.  (source)
    vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
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    The four others were dark-eyed, hardy little vagrants; this child was thin and very fair.†  (source)
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    After the Civil War, when a five-dollar fine for a Jim Crow charge—vagrancy, changing employers without permission, "bumptious contact," what have you—swept black men and women up into the maw of debt labor, the white sons remembered the family lore.†  (source)
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