How to Use beggar in a Sentence
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After the beggar left the room, the dog was let off its leash.
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Rebecca Coffey,
Discover Magazine,
4 Sep. 2011
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The next sticky seed source that will show up is beggar’s lice.
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Calvin Finch,
ExpressNews.com,
26 Mar. 2020
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The story about the rich man in hell and the beggar Lazarus in heaven — fake news.
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Garrison Keillor,
The Denver Post,
21 Feb. 2017
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But jobs are hard to find, and many end up as street beggars.
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Atlanta Life,
ajc,
9 July 2017
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The cities are down, and survivors wander the face of the earth as pirates or beggars.
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The Economist,
26 Apr. 2018
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One day a good-looking beggar comes to the house seeking help.
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Kathy Cichon,
Elgin Courier-News,
16 May 2017
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But zoom in on this man: A beggar’s son, just a few yards from Israel, and squarely in the line of fire.
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New York Times,
29 Apr. 2018
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The image was burned into my heart, and the message that came with it: once a boy, now a beggar.
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Chris Rush,
Harper's magazine,
19 Aug. 2019
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But the month of January has turned the Cavs into beggars.
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Joe Vardon,
cleveland.com,
29 Jan. 2018
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So, as your mother would say, beggars can’t be choosers.
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Chloe Metzger,
Marie Claire,
31 July 2018
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The officer had given him a warning and sent the beggar on his way.
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Madeleine Marr,
miamiherald,
14 May 2018
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Beware of Greeks bearing a gift horse on which beggars might ride.
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Paul Muldoon,
The New Yorker,
2 Sep. 2019
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The beggars are a blind man and a 10-year-old boy, the boy hired from his father for this specific purpose.
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Laila Lalami,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2018
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The 80-year-old — tall, with broad shoulders and a long white beard — receives all of them the same, minister or beggar.
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Mujib Mashal,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2019
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And this is definitely the closest that Chelsea have come to beggars in the 15 year reign of Roman Abramovich.
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SI.com,
22 June 2018
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One day Elijah the Prophet, dressed as a beggar, approached their table.
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Caren Schnur Neile,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Apr. 2023
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There aren’t a lot of games to pick from this weekend, but beggars can’t be choosers since college football is BACK!
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Max Meyer,
SI.com,
22 Aug. 2019
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The last symbol a dim garden over-run With Roman beggar-ticks.
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Sarah Blackwood,
The New Republic,
6 Jan. 2022
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The city of Hyderabad filled up potholes and cleared away beggars ahead of her visit.
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Bloomberg.com,
20 Feb. 2018
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But now, many of those bills could be seen muddied and crumpled up on the street, so worthless that not even street beggars picked them up.
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Kejal Vyas,
WSJ,
21 Aug. 2018
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Gather the fabric tightly around the egg, like a beggar's purse, and secure with a rubber band.
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Charlyne Mattox,
Country Living,
28 Mar. 2023
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Hawkers, beggars and street prostitutes are nowhere to be seen.
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The Economist,
13 July 2017
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Tituba was named as a witch, as was a disheveled beggar named Sarah Good and the elderly Sarah Osburn.
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National Geographic,
18 May 2017
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Tituba was named as a witch, as was a disheveled beggar named Sarah Good and the elderly Sarah Osburn.
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National Geographic,
18 May 2017
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No pontiff had ever paid such a tribute to the rich, 12th century man who gave his wealth to the poor and became a beggar for Christ.
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Bill Weir,
CNN,
13 Mar. 2018
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Check out works by Otto Dix, who painted the bankers, beggars, and Weimar sleaze with a harsh realistic eye.
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Karen Burshtein,
Vogue,
29 Jan. 2018
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One report claimed Avery died a beggar, cheated out of his fortune.
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Chris Scott,
CNN,
26 May 2017
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The crowd includes a businessman, a construction worker, a mother and child, a beggar crouched with a cup and a young man passing him change.
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Harrison Smith,
Washington Post,
9 July 2022
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With a furrowed brow and earnest eyes looking out directly at a viewer, the beggar leans gently to one side in a posture of subtle deference.
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Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
31 July 2023
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Those assets were usually nil, according to Mr. Klein, who described him as a lovable beggar and a skilled haggler.
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Penelope Green,
New York Times,
24 June 2023
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Through it all, the obscenely wealthy Rauner squats amid his piles of money and blames everyone but himself for beggaring his state.
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Noah Berlatsky,
Chicago Reader,
20 Dec. 2017
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What is already known would beggar the imaginations of Hollywood scriptwriters.
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National Geographic,
11 June 2016
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Despite its oil wealth, years of economic mismanagement have beggared Venezuela.
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Fabiola Zerpa,
Bloomberg.com,
1 Aug. 2017
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That neither Mary (a brilliant spy) nor Sherlock (a super-genius detective) had a proper read on Vivian in that scene rather beggars belief, but Sherlock will be holding on to that moment for a long time.
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Vanityfair.com,
VanityFair.com,
2 Jan. 2017
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And a Republican regime that promoted economic nationalism would surely enrich its friends and beggar its enemies.
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David Goldfield,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2017
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Through it all, the obscenely wealthy Rauner squats amid his piles of money and blames everyone but himself for beggaring his state.
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Noah Berlatsky,
Chicago Reader,
20 Dec. 2017
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What is already known would beggar the imaginations of Hollywood scriptwriters.
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National Geographic,
11 June 2016
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Despite its oil wealth, years of economic mismanagement have beggared Venezuela.
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Fabiola Zerpa,
Bloomberg.com,
1 Aug. 2017
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That neither Mary (a brilliant spy) nor Sherlock (a super-genius detective) had a proper read on Vivian in that scene rather beggars belief, but Sherlock will be holding on to that moment for a long time.
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Vanityfair.com,
VanityFair.com,
2 Jan. 2017
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And a Republican regime that promoted economic nationalism would surely enrich its friends and beggar its enemies.
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David Goldfield,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2017
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