How to Use beggar in a Sentence

beggar

1 of 2 noun

• I heard you won the contest! You lucky beggar!
• After the beggar left the room, the dog was let off its leash.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2011
• The next sticky seed source that will show up is beggar’s lice.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 26 Mar. 2020
• The story about the rich man in hell and the beggar Lazarus in heaven — fake news.
  — Garrison Keillor, The Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2017
• But jobs are hard to find, and many end up as street beggars.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 9 July 2017
• The cities are down, and survivors wander the face of the earth as pirates or beggars.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• One day a good-looking beggar comes to the house seeking help.
  — Kathy Cichon, Elgin Courier-News, 16 May 2017
• But zoom in on this man: A beggar’s son, just a few yards from Israel, and squarely in the line of fire.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
• The image was burned into my heart, and the message that came with it: once a boy, now a beggar.
  — Chris Rush, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• But the month of January has turned the Cavs into beggars.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• So, as your mother would say, beggars can’t be choosers.
  — Chloe Metzger, Marie Claire, 31 July 2018
• The officer had given him a warning and sent the beggar on his way.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 14 May 2018
• Beware of Greeks bearing a gift horse on which beggars might ride.
  — Paul Muldoon, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
• The beggars are a blind man and a 10-year-old boy, the boy hired from his father for this specific purpose.
  — Laila Lalami, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2018
• The 80-year-old — tall, with broad shoulders and a long white beard — receives all of them the same, minister or beggar.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2019
• And this is definitely the closest that Chelsea have come to beggars in the 15 year reign of Roman Abramovich.
  — SI.com, 22 June 2018
• One day Elijah the Prophet, dressed as a beggar, approached their table.
  — Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
• There aren’t a lot of games to pick from this weekend, but beggars can’t be choosers since college football is BACK!
  — Max Meyer, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• The last symbol a dim garden over-run With Roman beggar-ticks.
  — Sarah Blackwood, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2022
• The city of Hyderabad filled up potholes and cleared away beggars ahead of her visit.
  — Bloomberg.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• But now, many of those bills could be seen muddied and crumpled up on the street, so worthless that not even street beggars picked them up.
  — Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
• Gather the fabric tightly around the egg, like a beggar's purse, and secure with a rubber band.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 28 Mar. 2023
• Hawkers, beggars and street prostitutes are nowhere to be seen.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• Tituba was named as a witch, as was a disheveled beggar named Sarah Good and the elderly Sarah Osburn.
  — National Geographic, 18 May 2017
• Tituba was named as a witch, as was a disheveled beggar named Sarah Good and the elderly Sarah Osburn.
  — National Geographic, 18 May 2017
• No pontiff had ever paid such a tribute to the rich, 12th century man who gave his wealth to the poor and became a beggar for Christ.
  — Bill Weir, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
• Check out works by Otto Dix, who painted the bankers, beggars, and Weimar sleaze with a harsh realistic eye.
  — Karen Burshtein, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2018
• One report claimed Avery died a beggar, cheated out of his fortune.
  — Chris Scott, CNN, 26 May 2017
• With a furrowed brow and earnest eyes looking out directly at a viewer, the beggar leans gently to one side in a posture of subtle deference.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• Those assets were usually nil, according to Mr. Klein, who described him as a lovable beggar and a skilled haggler.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 24 June 2023

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beggar

2 of 2 verb

• Years of civil war had beggared the country.
• Through it all, the obscenely wealthy Rauner squats amid his piles of money and blames everyone but himself for beggaring his state.
  — Noah Berlatsky, Chicago Reader, 20 Dec. 2017
• What is already known would beggar the imaginations of Hollywood scriptwriters.
  — National Geographic, 11 June 2016
• Despite its oil wealth, years of economic mismanagement have beggared Venezuela.
  — Fabiola Zerpa, Bloomberg.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• That neither Mary (a brilliant spy) nor Sherlock (a super-genius detective) had a proper read on Vivian in that scene rather beggars belief, but Sherlock will be holding on to that moment for a long time.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 2 Jan. 2017
• And a Republican regime that promoted economic nationalism would surely enrich its friends and beggar its enemies.
  — David Goldfield, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017
• Years of civil war had beggared the country.
• Through it all, the obscenely wealthy Rauner squats amid his piles of money and blames everyone but himself for beggaring his state.
  — Noah Berlatsky, Chicago Reader, 20 Dec. 2017
• What is already known would beggar the imaginations of Hollywood scriptwriters.
  — National Geographic, 11 June 2016
• Despite its oil wealth, years of economic mismanagement have beggared Venezuela.
  — Fabiola Zerpa, Bloomberg.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• That neither Mary (a brilliant spy) nor Sherlock (a super-genius detective) had a proper read on Vivian in that scene rather beggars belief, but Sherlock will be holding on to that moment for a long time.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 2 Jan. 2017
• And a Republican regime that promoted economic nationalism would surely enrich its friends and beggar its enemies.
  — David Goldfield, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017

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