Sentence examples for be a bum and from inspiring English sources

You could be a bum and find a job later.

'The best way to be a bum and earn a living is to write sports,' Damon Runyon once told a young Jimmy Cannon.

"The best way to be a bum and make a living is to be a sportswriter," Runyon told Cannon, and he helped him get a job at a Hearst paper, the New York American, in 1936.

Now, when we meet him he's a bum, and she's living the life of a drunkard's wife".

He wanted this picture for his mother because someone had told her he was a bum and he wanted to show her all the things he owned.

If we turned up on opposite sides of some issue — let's say that McAlary wrote that the police commissioner was a bum, and my column crowned him a prince — he would call early.

He's a bum and a fraud.' " Caras could also be tested in other ways, like the time he sat in the corner of a pool hall in Millville, N.J., waiting for the proprietor, a longtime friend.

That way, I can stop being a bum and actually get something accomplished.

I was like 19 and was still being a bum and living at home with my mom.

He and I were both penniless; I worked full-time for a respectable fashion label but was remunerated abysmally, whereas Rob was a bum and deserved to be broke.

Soon Charlie is making his "On the Waterfront" proclamation: "That kid's a bum and he's always gonna be a bum!" That kind of dad.