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
On average, one homeless person was killed in a vehicle accident every other day.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025
In the early days, he had posed as a homeless person to surveil militia training facilities, but he decided that was a waste of time.
From Salon • Jan. 7, 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
