vagrant

Example Sentences

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"I won't have to be a vagrant anymore."

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2025

He’s a vagrant by definition — a man with no job, no paper trail or online presence.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2024

“Where once it owned the continent, it’s now a kind of vagrant, occupying the botanical equivalent of homeless encampments.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023

Australia, for example, logged a total of 329 vagrant birds over a 60-year period, from 1940 to 2000, Dr. Davis noted in a 2018 paper.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2022

A slight ripple upon the water, or a vagrant breeze through the grass, became Asmodeus.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques