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Example sentences for: beggars
How can you use “beggars” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
He said, "To use outdated street maps for an operation of this kind beggars belief."
Beggars can't be choosers or Hunger is
This can backfire alarmingly, as in Nancy Kress' 1991 novel, Beggars in Spain . In it, genetic engineers adhering to an Ayn Rand-like philosophy called "Yagaism" create a race of people who don't need to sleep.
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.
For when grey hairs appear on the head of a changeling he is put out of the hill to make the rest of his way through the human world; which is why we see so many grey-haired beggars on the roads.