beggar

Example Sentences

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“It kind of beggars credulity that that number of complaints could be raised and that none could be substantiated,” Johnson said.

From Los Angeles Times

"Having been in a video in such tragic circumstances, it's beggars belief why people want to do that," she said.

From BBC

He inherited the job of impoverishing his resource-rich country on the death of Hugo Chávez—who had himself been beggaring Venezuela since 1999.

From The Wall Street Journal

"I see more and more beggars in town as people are starving. People have no jobs and so the election seems like a distant prospect. They have no time to be interested in it."

From Barron's

King Lear, bearing the brunt of a storm, looks at what he thinks is a mad beggar and wonders if “unaccommodated man” is no more than “a poor, bare, forked animal.”

From Los Angeles Times