Sentence examples for bum from from inspiring English sources

I think Cyprus is probably where I got my massive Mediterranean bum from, too.

You don't get a numb bum from a rotten theatre seat and you can crack on doing whatever you like while listening to a play.

Indeed, one of my enduring impressions of the Russian Army is that it seems to be manned by a legion of beggars -- troops without the money to buy decent cigarettes, which they are forced to bum from visitors.

You have to take a deep breath and say, 'I'm game for anything.' " Ms. Brown, a tattooed former party girl and ski bum from Louisiana, is the latest young television reporter to be pegged as having the right proportions of gravitas and charm, of chops and chirpiness, to be a big-time network anchor.

The novelist Elissa Schappell said she found the down-home Ucross Foundation, in Clearmont, Wyo., blissfully free of "that peculiar strain of male writer who seems to just bum from colony to colony like some 50's-era Riviera playboy, reliant on the kindness of patrons and others' praise," as she put it in an e-mail message.

And yet, against the odds, Rocky Balboa has been both a critical and commercial success in the US, precisely because it taps into what made the first Rocky film so powerful 30 years earlier: when Rocky ran the steps all those years ago his goal was not to win but to go the distance, to prove to himself that he was somebody and not "just another bum from the neighbourhood".

Among them is one captioned "Three bums from South Ferry flophouses".

The book vilifies the close companions of the Prophet, calling them "bums from Persia" and "clowns", whereas the Qur'an treats them as men of righteousness.

"What are you doing?" Another day outside the courthouse she finished off a partially smoked cigarette that she bummed from a passer-by.

Oahu, Hawaii, one of the world's most remote destinations, has long been an escape for tanned beach bums from mainland USA and they're a part of the landscape now.

But Kuhn, baseball's commissioner from 1969 to 1984, might not have minded bonding eternally with O'Malley, the Dodgers' savvy owner, who moved Dem Bums from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958.