How to use beggar in a sentence

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• The beggar asked for change, but the haughty woman only looked at him askance.From the entry askance
• The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup.From the entry mutter
• The old beggar kept a verminous mongrel dog for a pet.From the entry verminous
• It beggars belief to suppose that corporate policies can always pursue the best interests of a company.From the entry beggar belief
• A beggar accosted me as soon as I stepped outside.From the entry accost
• I gave my coat to the beggar.From the entry give
• During the festival, the temple suffices food to the beggars.From the entry suffice
• The street was full of wretched beggars dressed in rags.From the entry wretched
• The beggar may descend from a prince.From the entry descend
• I slept rough with Roma beggars and touted for work with Baltic laborers on the kerb.March 1, 2016, Ben Judah on BBC Business Daily. From the entry tout
• When one is a beggar, it is usually rather difficult to challenge the hegemony of the beggee.2012, Paul Kaplan, Murder Stories: Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment, page 153. From the entry beggee
• The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.2008, Lizzie Williams, updated by Mark Shenley, Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide, published 2012, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 109. From the entry dash
• They were looking for beggars, but they had all fled from town.2008, Zsuzsa Hetényi, In a Maelstrom: The History of Russian-Jewish Prose (1860-1940). From the entry black wedding
• I must have done something so obnoxious as to beggar belief.2003, David Bennun, “After the Earthquake”, in Tick Bite Fever, London: Ebury Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry obnoxious
• The trouble is, the beggars scatter as soon as you turn round with the hat.2001, George Orwell, Orwell and the Dispossessed, Penguin UK, →ISBN. From the entry nobber
• On the waterfront, just outside the foreign settlements, the streets swarmed with filth-ridden beggars and coolies.[1982 [1975], Otto Braun, “Shanghai, 1932–1933”, in Jeanne Moore, transl., Chinesische Aufzeichnungen (1932-1939) 一个共产国际顾问在中国 [A Comintern…. From the entry Zhabei
• Then again these figures take no account of the thousands of beggars who travel free in India.1953 November, 'Erca', “Ticket Frauds in the East”, in Railway Magazine, page 778. From the entry smear
• As I was travellin' through Lecale, I heered from a beggar a slowsome tale.1948, David Marcus, Poetry Ireland - Issues 1-19. From the entry slowsome
• 'Oh, this fair is nothing but a chaos of noise and beggars,' I thought in disillusionment.1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, “Chapter 36: Babaji's Interest in the West”, in Autobiography of a Yogi. From the entry disillusionment
• Hindu boys are, first, panders, and second, remarkably skillful and pertinacious beggars.1944 May, Gilbert E. Fuller Jr, “Chanute and Points West”, in The Atlantic. From the entry pander
• I am aging out of queenship indeed, when even the beggars refuse my bidding.1925, Robinson Jeffers, “THE TOWER BEYOND TRAGEDY; II”, in Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems, New York: Horace Liveright, page 62. From the entry age out
• The beggar can't kill me any deader in one mood than another."1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Untamed. From the entry deader
• The poor beggars think that there is something fearsome in this direction, and therefore they avoid it."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry Curupuri
• Thomas Pasco, beggar, got everything the statutes would permit Judge Binkle to give him yesterday afternoon.1903 September 9, “COURT THROWS BOOK AT HIM”, in Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA, page 5. From the entry throw the book at
• “An alm for the love of God,” cries the beggar.2015, Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel, Multnomah, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry alm
• A beggar, his head swathed in rags, was eating a falafel, bits of cucumber falling out of the pita's corners.2013, Ruchama King Feuerman, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, New York Review of Books, →ISBN, page 218. From the entry falafel
• The accelerando of the sciences and of technology, their mathematization have beggared both the reach and the veracity of natural language.2012, George Steiner, The Poetry of Thought, p. 195. From the entry accelerando
• "An open invitation for beggars," harumphed Migrationwatch.2012 June 3, Hugh Muir, “Hideously diverse Britain: standing up for the Romanians”, in The Guardian. From the entry harumph
• Mould was growing in the seams of his coat, and dust, like beggars' velvet, lay on the nap.2011, Chris Nickson, Broken Token. From the entry beggars' velvet
• In other words, you reduce yourself to a slave or beggar by mortgaging your happiness on the mercy of others.1995, M.K. Gupta, How To Remain Ever Happy, →ISBN. From the entry dance to someone's tune
• He must guard himself from beggars, cranks, curiosity seekers, matchmakers, adventurers and adventureresses and people who want to sell him things.1920 September 1, ““Clerk Faces Problem of Spending Millions”, in Montgomery Times, volume 36, Montgomery, Ala., page [8], column 2. From the entry adventureress
• The beggar man fissled for a few minutes with the bedtick, and to all intents slipped something inside it.1917, Seumas MacManus, Lo, and Behold Ye!, page 101. From the entry fissle
• It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the look-out for the mendicancy squad.1906, O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi. From the entry mendicancy squad
• He gave an example of a whiskey known as 'kill the beggar' in Belfast because 'it first makes the beggar and then kills the beggar'.2016, Kevin Martin, “Special Exemptions”, in Have Ye No Homes to Go To?: The History of the Irish Pub, Collins Press, →ISBN. From the entry kill-the-beggar
• He is glad to see me and tells me that during his absence from the parish one of the women beggars died.1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?" — A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume…. From the entry poor

Meaning of beggar

1. noun A person who begs.
2. noun A person suffering from extreme poverty.
3. noun A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.

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• Beggar in Tamil
• Beggar in Marathi
• Beggar in Urdu

Questions about beggar in a sentence

How do you use beggar in a sentence?

Beggar is used as a noun and verb. For example: “What does that silly beggar think he's doing?”

What is a short sentence with beggar?

“"An open invitation for beggars," harumphed Migrationwatch.”

What does beggar mean?

Beggar means a person who begs.