Sentence examples for a bum with from inspiring English sources

Buster Keaton, meanwhile, was careful to distinguish his own screen persona from Chaplin's: "Charlie's tramp was a bum with the bum's philosophy.

When a bum with an exceptionally grimy face steps up to buy a ticket, Mazie places a towel and a cake of soap before him and says, "Look, buddy, I'll make a bargain with you.

This was followed by Neil Simon's first Broadway play, Come Blow Your Horn (1961), in which he played the self-made Jewish father with a playboy son whom he keeps calling a "bum" with great comic relish.

Last year I had a friendship collapse over the use of the word "hobo" – I felt my friend was being too facile in her definition ("a bum with a handkerchief tied to a stick"), she felt I was being too politically correct by suggesting that the term was offensive to actual homeless people.

He's a bum with a vision and a weird, weird way of executing it.

This city has given me some of my lowest lows (in my first 2 weeks I got kicked out of my apartment, mugged, assaulted by a bum with a pitbull and followed home by a lunatic).

In "Blood Work," Mr. Daniels plays Buddy, a boat bum with a trust fund who lives a few docks down from Mr. Eastwood's character, a retired F.B.I. agent with a heart transplant searching for the serial killer who murdered his donor.

Dr. Claude Lucas (a rocket scientist) wakes up with a hangover, dressed like a bum, and with no memory of how he arrived on the floor of a men's room in Union Station in Washington.

One day she woke up to find a bum asleep with her in her bed.

But Walter sinks it all into a bum business with a cheap chiseller, and crushes everyone's hopes in the process.

The fate of the heroine takes its first turn toward tragedy when her feckless father makes a bum deal with the Devil.