homeless person

Example Sentences

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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

So it was one homeless person in the front.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

The detective believes Levine saw the bags Palacios was carrying and mistook him for a homeless person.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

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

Monday through Saturday my mom worked in her office and puttered around her garden dressed like a homeless person.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah