homeless person
Example Sentences
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When the New York Times asked Pratt if he had personally engaged a homeless person on the street, he wasn’t clear.
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
Under Ms. Bass’s signature initiative, the city has spent $82,420 a year for each homeless person it has sheltered in motels.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
In an online post, the city described it as a “small cooking fire” that was quickly put out by firefighters, while the homeless person camping there was removed.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025
Equally as controversial are "bodies of the state" donations - when a homeless person dies on the street, or somebody dies in hospital without known next-of-kin, and their corpse is donated to science.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025
Assuming that Snyder misspoke or was misquoted and meant to say that one homeless person died every forty-five seconds, that’s still 701,000 dead homeless people every year—roughly one-third of all deaths in the United States.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
