Sentence examples for deadbeats i from inspiring English sources

I have no patience for deadbeats; I was stiffed by a client when I was doing freelance magazine production several years ago.

I had been briefed to begin with a summary of the plot, and as I described the struggles of the play's writer-hero, living in a New Orleans apartment-block surrounded by starving gentlefolk, alcoholics and deadbeats, I heard a steadily growing rumble of laughter from across the table.

But the calls that really get to me are the ones for a deadbeat whom I will call Larson E. Whipsnade, in homage to W. C. Fields.

He also responds to tabloid reports claiming that he is a deadbeat dad, "I think its crazy.

Basically if you have a deadbeat dad, I'm probably the guy he's yelling at over the phone at 9 AM because he was caught mowing the lawn when he said he couldn't move and needed an early refill of Oxycontin.

I had a deadbeat dad and I grew up in that environment," says Atwood.

My husband is not a "deadbeat dad" -- I see the money leaving our checkbook every week.

Despite last season's Slade-as-Deadbeat-Dad storyline I genuinely feel for him and hope for the best here.

Deadbeat son that I am, I delayed typing my college thesis on T.S. Eliot until pretty much the last minute my senior year, and my mother, as usual, bailed me out.

Clint had contacted me with the idea of publishing a zine through Deadbeat Club, and since I love to collaborate with different photographers and artists, I jumped at the offer.

"I have taken deadbeat newspapers and made them livelier".