How to Use vagrant in a Sentence

vagrant

1 of 2 noun

• The 35-year-old vagrant then grabbed the child, picked him up and threw him to the concrete, slamming his face on the ground, police said.
  — Fox News, 11 Oct. 2019
• Two local villages have built pens, filled with hay, to lure any vagrants.
  — Catherine Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
• One of the speakers recalled when Vasquez, as a vicar, was asked by church members to shoo away a man outside the church who was viewed as a vagrant.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 24 Dec. 2019
• Drug dealers and vagrants have also taken notice of the house, which has been vacant for more than a decade.
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2019
• Please don’t glorify a homeless vagrant who has nowhere to go.
  — Dan Koeppel, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2019
• Coronavirus seems to pounce on these attributes, like a famished vagrant at a free all-you-can-eat buffet.
  — Sam Adams, The Denver Post, 17 July 2020
• The catacombs, long abused as a temporary home for vagrants and even as a handy storage space for the church’s janitors, had been cleaned up some, but still were in rough shape.
  — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Citizen Ruth is about a paint-huffing vagrant who has been arrested 16 times and given birth to four children, all of whom were seized by the state.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
• Simpson was able to grab the gun away from the vagrant, Joseph Spataro, who was charged with firing a weapon while intoxicated and trespassing.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 11 Apr. 2018
• In 2019, the number of homeless citizens living in cars, vans and RVs increased, along with the number of vagrants living in tents or makeshift setups.
  — Nick Givas, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2020
• And the Korpers are on their own -- to stay safe among strangers, to change bus lines, to cross several lanes of heavy traffic, to navigate on foot the last third of a mile past vacant lots and vagrants.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• The man appeared to be a vagrant and was subsequently given a courtesy ride to a location in Willoughby.
  — Andy Attina / Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• Gun stalls sit alongside tchotchke stands and food trucks; locals dance, scream and fight, while news reports warn of a psychotic vagrant roaming the streets naked and stabbing random strangers.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
• Back then, the newspaper’s Web site was treated like a vagrant, banished to a separate building blocks away from the paper’s newsroom on West 43rd Street.
  — The Hive, 19 June 2017
• At the beach their son, Jason, wanders off and encounters a vagrant standing near that same funhouse, his fingers dripping with blood.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2019
• This change, in Foucault’s account, introduced to those towns a new anxiety about vagrants and outsiders.
  — Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
• Many of the vagrants used the public library’s restrooms to relieve themselves—and to shoot up with heroin, often leaving their needles behind.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 11 May 2018
• She and Jack would reunite in the 1987 drama Ironweed, playing two Depression-era vagrants who lean on each other during hard times.
  — Erin Carlson, Town & Country, 24 Sep. 2019
• Milly Karafasoulos -- a 40-year resident of the neighborhood -- said there has recently been a problem with vagrants in the area.
  — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2017
• Simpson faced no charges; the vagrant, Joseph Spataro, was charged with firing a weapon while intoxicated and trespassing.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 11 June 2018
• But Boring's members complain that the vagrants who were outside the shelter moved into their entryways and stairwells.
  — Author: Charles Wohlforth | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2018
• Vagrancy laws recast former black slaves as vagrants in order to control or eject them from places they were deemed undesirable.
  — Dae Shik Kim Hawkins, The Atlantic, 28 June 2018
• Burns and Young said the initiative has faced some concerns, including worries about fruit produced from trees planted in city soil and the risk of young people or vagrants vandalizing the trees.
  — Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Media have reported the rounding up of vagrants and the suspension of leisure facilities.
  — Time, 3 Mar. 2020
• After the Gold Rush, growing numbers of vagrant and destitute children began wandering the city’s streets.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• In the past, some vagrants were incarcerated for drug offenses.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• Those in the program are guaranteed only one face-to-face contact with a caseworker per month, even as drug users, pushers and vagrants frequent their buildings through front doors with broken locks.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• Research has demonstrated that the long-term impact of a single avian vagrant can in fact, be ecologically profound.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• Walking through Mid-Market today, one is almost guaranteed to see open-air drug dealing, hear the yelling of mentally disturbed homeless vagrants, and smell urine on the sidewalks.
  — James Sutton, National Review, 13 June 2019
• In recent years, 7-Eleven stores have taken to driving vagrants away by blaring classical music, including opera.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 Apr. 2023

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vagrant

2 of 2 adjective

• The vagrant children of many nations were crouched and high and drunken there . . .
  — Ellen Akins, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• The group aged each bird by their appearance and found that vagrant, or birds that fly outside of their range, were always adolescents, per Science News.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2021
• Like, for example, that iconic and emotional moment in the film when Andrews sings of paying a vagrant woman to feed the birds in front of St. Paul's Cathedral.
  — Rose Minutaglio, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Nov. 2018
• Somehow a vagrant shrew (the only type of shrew found on Whidbey, this one living up to its name) had entered their home, seemingly asking to be counted.
  — Kathryn True, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
• Researchers suspect these vagrant neutrophils release neutrophil elastase and other molecules at the wrong spots, including the lungs, causing the tissue damage seen in COPD.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 5 Mar. 2020
• Much of the book’s power comes from its exploration of Lovato’s own wide-ranging life experiences, from child bookworm to teen vagrant to revolucionario to independent scholar and activist.
  — Laura Weiss, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2020
• Though provocative on their own, these vagrant personal dramas don’t hook together into a coherent pattern.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• The commissioner had heard screaming, looked outside and saw a father pushing a baby in a stroller accompanied by another toddler moving away from a person the witness described as a vagrant, who was following them with a brick, Krepp said.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2021
• Dreamlike and deliberate, pedestrian and theatrical, bland and strangely beautiful, ‘About Endlessness’ takes in the suffering, struggle and moments of vagrant joy in life and propels them into the cosmos.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• While the Millennial Belafonte may proclaim this vagrant hope, Seldom Seen conveyed its spiritual cost.
  — Armond White, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
• Synonyms for beggar include hobo, pauper, tramp, vagrant, derelict, mendicant, bum, supplicant, deadbeat, borrower.
  — Stephen Miller, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
• The vagrant children of many nations were crouched and high and drunken there . . .
  — Ellen Akins, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• The group aged each bird by their appearance and found that vagrant, or birds that fly outside of their range, were always adolescents, per Science News.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2021
• Like, for example, that iconic and emotional moment in the film when Andrews sings of paying a vagrant woman to feed the birds in front of St. Paul's Cathedral.
  — Rose Minutaglio, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Nov. 2018
• Somehow a vagrant shrew (the only type of shrew found on Whidbey, this one living up to its name) had entered their home, seemingly asking to be counted.
  — Kathryn True, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
• Researchers suspect these vagrant neutrophils release neutrophil elastase and other molecules at the wrong spots, including the lungs, causing the tissue damage seen in COPD.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 5 Mar. 2020
• Much of the book’s power comes from its exploration of Lovato’s own wide-ranging life experiences, from child bookworm to teen vagrant to revolucionario to independent scholar and activist.
  — Laura Weiss, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2020
• Though provocative on their own, these vagrant personal dramas don’t hook together into a coherent pattern.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• The commissioner had heard screaming, looked outside and saw a father pushing a baby in a stroller accompanied by another toddler moving away from a person the witness described as a vagrant, who was following them with a brick, Krepp said.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2021
• Dreamlike and deliberate, pedestrian and theatrical, bland and strangely beautiful, ‘About Endlessness’ takes in the suffering, struggle and moments of vagrant joy in life and propels them into the cosmos.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• While the Millennial Belafonte may proclaim this vagrant hope, Seldom Seen conveyed its spiritual cost.
  — Armond White, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
• Synonyms for beggar include hobo, pauper, tramp, vagrant, derelict, mendicant, bum, supplicant, deadbeat, borrower.
  — Stephen Miller, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021

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