Sentence examples for begging for bread from inspiring English sources
I see people who used to be in a strong financial situation and now they are practically begging for bread".
The bakers' shops are invaded by poor people begging for bread, and the little they obtain costs them double the usual price.
But why are these protesters begging for bread, when the core of the Moscow protesters are white collar and upper-middle-class?
A Syrian dentist with a clinic in west Aleppo, still controlled by the government, said people rang his bell at least 10 times a day begging for bread or money.
As one elder related: Large crowds marched into our yards and surrounded our wells like the locusts of Egypt, and struggled with each other for the water as if perishing with thirst; and they thronged our kitchen doors and windows, begging for bread like hungry wolves.
As George Orwell once wrote, "a fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight" (Orwell 1938, 115).
In song, Marley predicted that not one of his seed would "sit on the sidewalk and beg for bread", and so they have not.
For much of Evans's childhood the family remained on parish relief: the children slept four to a bed and often begged for bread from the posh houses across the valley.
