hobo
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As an adult, I’ve tried to will myself back into enthrallment with this plucky heroine who repels a scary hobo, bravely goes without food and saves a poor Italian immigrant when others are against her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Yes, it wasn't a boy; it was a little girl, but I couldn't tell because she was dressed like a hobo.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2023
The trilogy includes “The Areas of My Expertise,” a book that contains, among other things, a list of 700 hobo names.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023
“We see a cactus, then a dog, then a hobo, then a disintegrated monument, then a rainstorm,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
On the eighth day, the forty-year-old hobo said to Billy, “This ain’t bad. I can be comfortable anywhere.”
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Starting with “Rolling Nowhere,” his 1984 account of hopping trains with hoboes, Conover has made a career of immersing himself in seemingly impenetrable subcultures, then writing with sympathy and insight about his experiences.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2022
He traveled around the world — Haiti, Bosnia, Afghanistan — for high-profile magazine assignments and rode the rails across the United States, chronicling some of the last of the hoboes.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
Or will Rory’s talk of hoboes and the inconsequence of mankind as seen from space have some effect on Pete’s work on the new alpine skiing account?
From Slate ● May 7, 2012
Red uncouples the car in which the hoboes are riding and temporarily foils the hawkshaws.
From Time Magazine Archive
He traveled for a long time with the hoboes and worked for a short time as a scarecrow.
From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo
A friend recently observed that many young, relatively affluent people in his New York City neighborhood—which voted heavily for Zohran Mamdani—dress like hobos and sport Carhartt workwear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Longtime Dylan followers are accustomed to the peculiar cast that haunts his songs — scarlet women, jughead criminals, wanton judges, sanctified hobos and unscrupulous gamblers — and they festoon these pages as well.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2022
In 2014, Deadspin published the article "Candy Corn Is Garbage," which said the candy was the diet of "hobos, serial murderers and Satan."
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022
Then, they rode the rail like a couple of hobos.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2022
I stayed at the far end of the yard with a group of hobos waiting for a train.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
