houseless

Example Sentences

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She finished by pitching her chronically houseless client’s story: “This would be an opportunity to really help someone,” Shaw said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2022

"My parents might be homeless, but they aren't houseless," Phoebe tweeted, along with a video of her and her mother.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2022

As officers wrestled him out of his tent and carried him bodily toward the police van, a man shouted: “Shame on you. Is that how you treat houseless people?”

From New York Times • May 4, 2022

Swell couples could easily share a table with a houseless person, and the fabulous cafeterias were always integrated.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2022

All those miles and days had been across a houseless, speechless desolation: rock, ice, sky, and silence: nothing else, for eighty-one days, except each other.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin