Example sentences for: beggar

How can you use “beggar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The film's most emblematic character is a beggar who trails people outside the offices of the Oakland Tribune yelling, "Gimme pussy on toast!"

  • Of unknown origin, doxy is variously the low term for sweetheart or mistress, female tramp or beggar, plaything or paramour [toy boy?], even a baby.

  • Thus, we find cast pearls before swine under pearl, beggars cannot (or must not) be choosers under beggar , and, even more curiously, know the time of day under time . I doubt that cannot or must not appear in the second proverb as frequently as can't (I cannot recall ever having heard must not or even mustn't ); but the last expression is always preceded by not , and other representations are inaccurate.

  • Profoundly shaken, he left his wife and small son and became a wandering beggar, searching for the meaning of existence.

  • In fact, they could do more, since the beggar is closer to perishing than your relatives are.


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