hobo

Example Sentences

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Its crowd regarded me as if I were a hobo, a single Coke was $10 and I promptly took the next train to Ventimiglia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

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

“A Face in the Crowd” Andy Griffith plays a folksy hobo turned megalomaniacal media star in Elia Kazan’s biting 1957 satire.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2021

Billy Pilgrim nestled like a spoon with the hobo on Christmas night, and he fell asleep, and he traveled in time to 1967 again—to the night he was kidnapped by a flying saucer from Tralfamadore.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut