beggar

“I’m just a beggar that found food, and I’m telling everybody where it is,” Jackson said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Whether buying a Porsche 911, paying bills or giving money to a beggar at a stoplight, the payment is made the same way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

"It's just garbage... the clothes you can't even wear, you wouldn't even give to a beggar," Akoth said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

“But here, you see a beggar and you think to yourself, ‘He’s working for them,’” he added, referring to Pakistan’s powerful intelligence services.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2024

I wished I could join Mara, but I’ve been a beggar all my life, and I know the tricks.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

As P.R. goes, complaining about beggars in 1800s London isn’t a great look.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Perhaps a few would have fancied more goals against Haiti, but beggars cannot be choosers after a 36-year wait for a win on the biggest stage of all.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Kershaw, who had a take home pay of £1,400 a month, claimed to have a "compulsive shopping addiction", and give money to beggars, as well as pay household bills.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

The novel illuminates the makeshift community cultivated among the beggars, who maintain their own hierarchy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

A few beggars lay under the great tympanum of Notre Dame’s doorway.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Three times they held up black shirts over the try-line during a second-half defensive effort that at times beggared belief.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

A worse sin, even, than Amin’s expulsion in 1972 of every last Ugandan Asian, an act that was wildly popular with black Ugandans but which beggared Uganda almost overnight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

But the soaring price of shipping beggared that strategy.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

If you thought the scot-free museum heist beggared belief, then you underestimate Elektra and her imagination.

From Salon ● May 2, 2021

Harren had beggared the riverlands and the Iron Islands alike to ornament his dream.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

"It's beggaring the entire Forest Service budget," Safford said.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2022

But beggaring the workers who trusted promises made by their employers, their unions and their government is not the answer.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2018

It would have restricted development on grouse habitat, potentially beggaring states such as Wyoming which collects three-fifths of its revenues from energy companies.

From Economist ● May 3, 2018

One recalled another legacy of Ceausescu's -- the beggaring of Rumania -- when she explained, "We have nothing else to give the soldiers except bread."

From Time Magazine Archive

In nine months, alternately beggaring one another, they had now, it appeared, broken about even.

From Barbarians by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers