Sentence examples for for a vagrant from inspiring English sources

(Houellebecq travelled there when writing the book; he was at first given a bed in a room set up for the homeless as the priests mistook him for a vagrant).

The disguise works so well that he is detained by a policeman, who mistakes him for a vagrant and gives him a humiliating mandate: "Say 'General Zia is a one-eyed faggot' thrice and I'll let you go".

But he can be mistaken for a vagrant, making hitchhiking and trust a challenge, given his obvious bulk.

You answer your radio, and that's it". Snapping and unsnapping her gun holster as she waited for a vagrant to be booked into jail, Officer Helen Fangman agreed: "They're doing criminal acts in front of our faces, and we're turning our heads". To be sure, there are officers who deplore the pullback as unethical.

It would have revealed basic living quarters which could easily have been mistaken for the den of a vagrant if discovered.

Highmore, in response, asked for a charge against John Harper, one of the rebellious actors, for being a vagrant, and Harper was sent to Bridewell Palace prison.

Ms Beaton writes surreal strips for "Hark, A Vagrant!" typically based on history and forgotten bits of popular culture.

(Later on, at a crucial moment, she will remind him of his mother). The next thing we know, Tanaka has been arrested by Watase for murdering a vagrant, despite scant evidence.

I think one of my lecturers bought a drawing for £5, and a vagrant man bought a lactating sphinx with huge breasts for £10.

And he did eat dog food ("gourmet dog food") for a week to prepare for his role as a vagrant in Down And Out In Beverly Hills.

Dusk was falling on the south side of Glasgow when the search party picked me up looking like a vagrant hunting for lost golf balls to sell back to the chaps.