Sentence examples for local deadbeat from inspiring English sources

Later, at the book's climax, Scout watches as the county sheriff, Heck Tate, refuses to implicate the vulnerable Boo Radley in the murder of the local deadbeat Bob Ewell, who attempted to kill Scout and her brother.

On its two previous albums, the encouraging "Sink or Swim" (XOXO, 2007) and the stellar "The '59 Sound" (SideOneDummy, 2008), it created its own universe, populated with local characters: deadbeats and strivers, held down by the places that made them who they are.

The demand for new stadiums turns sports commissioners into legal versions of loan sharks as they storm into recalcitrant municipalities and threaten the locals for being such deadbeats.

In the far-northern town of Archangel the local power company wanted to cut off Sevmash, a deadbeat local engineering company.

Many big-name Manchester musicians have helped nurture new bands, Gill says, and he cites The Janice Graham Band and The Deadbeat Echoes - who recently supported the Inspirals - as proof that the local scene is still alive and kicking.

While the big names obviously delivered in spades (Ben UFO, Deadbeat & Tikkiman, Lawrence and Honey Dijon were all highlights), it was the locals that really stole the show.

His selfish, deadbeat dad (Renier) refuses to get involved, and so, agonised by this need for a father figure, Cyril falls under the spell of a local drug-dealer who needs an underling to do his dirty work.

And we are not a deadbeat nation.

We are not a deadbeat nation.

The United States is the United Nations' biggest deadbeat.

Others point to the deadbeat borrowers.