Example sentences for: beggars

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

  • 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.

  • An interest in the language and lexicography begins with the earliest texts, which usually include glossaries, or explanations of the special language of beggars, thieves, and so on.

  • He said, "To use outdated street maps for an operation of this kind beggars belief."

  • poolside at the Pearl Continental Hotel in downtown Rawalpindi, running around Gilgit in disputed Kashmir Province and fending off aggressive beggars on the overnight sleeper train to Karachi.

  • 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.


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