vagrant

Example Sentences

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Going back to the 1800s, the city keeps “tramps,” “hobos,” “vagrants” and “winos” off the streets by locking them up in jail or sending them to work at the county “poor farm.”

From Los Angeles Times

He served four years, but on his release he had no family, friends or place to live, so he became a vagrant.

From BBC

"Romanians go to other countries for work, but we have so many resources here. Wood, grain - and our soil is very rich. Why should we be vagrants in Italy?"

From BBC

He plays Tom T. Shiftlet, a one-armed vagrant who talks a woman into taking him on as her handyman, then marries her mute, deaf daughter, Lucynell.

From New York Times

But from the arguments, it’s not clear the court will say Grants Pass went too far and violated the “vagrants’ ” constitutional rights.

From Seattle Times