beggar

Example Sentences

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King Lear, bearing the brunt of a storm, looks at what he thinks is a mad beggar and wonders if “unaccommodated man” is no more than “a poor, bare, forked animal.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025

"It's just garbage... the clothes you can't even wear, you wouldn't even give to a beggar," Akoth said.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

But over the following years, purported sightings of Majorana multiplied: as a beggar in Naples, a monk in Calabria, and a vagabond in South America.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 20, 2023

Francis has long said that true service and charity has to hurt, and that it’s not enough just to give a beggar a coin on the street.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023

When I look at my reflection in the lake, I realize that I look exactly like a street beggar now.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu