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

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

Even the vagrant rays of sunlight that manage to peek through are shrouded in crepuscular gloom.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2022

He poked about with a bit of stick, that itself was wave-worn and whitened and a vagrant, and tried to control the motions of the scavengers.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding