homeless person
Example Sentences
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Under Ms. Bass’s signature initiative, the city has spent $82,420 a year for each homeless person it has sheltered in motels.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
So it was one homeless person in the front.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
Equally as controversial are "bodies of the state" donations - when a homeless person dies on the street, or somebody dies in hospital without known next-of-kin, and their corpse is donated to science.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025
In 2016, 1 in 6 arrests citywide was of a homeless person.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025
Assuming that Snyder misspoke or was misquoted and meant to say that one homeless person died every forty-five seconds, that’s still 701,000 dead homeless people every year—roughly one-third of all deaths in the United States.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
