BEGGAR in a Sentence
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91 example sentences for BEGGAR, such as:
1. The rich man waved the beggar away.
2. The family had been beggared by the war.
3. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
4. The beggar is crouching in a corner of the room.
5. The beggar begged from the rich but they refused.
2. The family had been beggared by the war.
3. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
4. The beggar is crouching in a corner of the room.
5. The beggar begged from the rich but they refused.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of BEGGAR
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beggar
v. be beyond the resources of
v. reduce to beggary
Classic Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1 I must say, I like to serve a decayed gentleman better than a blarnerying beggar.
2 Later on the swineherd will bring me to the city disguised as a miserable old beggar.
3 Then Ulysses said, "Sir, I do not want to stay here; a beggar can always do better in town than country, for any one who likes can give him something."
4 Immediately afterwards Ulysses came inside, looking like a poor miserable old beggar, leaning on his staff and with his clothes all in rags.
5 Ulysses, therefore, went on his round, going from left to right, and stretched out his hands to beg as though he were a real beggar.
6 No other beggar or stranger has been allowed to hear what we say among ourselves; the wine must have been doing you a mischief, as it does with all those who drink immoderately.
7 Telemachus came first, and then after him, accompanied by the swineherd, came Ulysses, clad in rags and leaning on a staff as though he were some miserable old beggar.
8 He would try to make my children friendly to the little beggar: the darlings could not bear it, and he was angry with them when they showed their dislike.
9 I felt it was what was to be expected, and what could not be helped: an ordinary beggar is frequently an object of suspicion; a well-dressed beggar inevitably so.
10 I imagine he did not think I was a beggar, but only an eccentric sort of lady, who had taken a fancy to his brown loaf.
11 I am no beggar; any more than yourself or your young ladies.
12 I will say so much for you, though you have had the incivility to call me a beggar.
13 He shook his head, and advised that Heathcliff should be let alone; affirming, if the truth were known, Hareton would be found little else than a beggar.
14 The impression was, A king lifting up a lame beggar from the earth.
15 Candide, yet more moved with compassion than with horror, gave to this shocking beggar the two florins which he had received from the honest Anabaptist James.
Example Sentence:
1 The beggar is crouching in a corner of the room.
2 The beggar tore the chicken apart and began to eat.
3 He wasn't even trying to score - the ball just bounced off the jammy beggar's/bastard's head into the goal.
4 He warned that lifting copyright restrictions could beggar the industry.
5 The rich man waved the beggar away.
6 The beggar begged from the rich but they refused.
7 Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
8 Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
9 If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
10 They showed a lack of common sense that beggars belief.
11 Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.
12 She has spent her life trying to help gypsies, beggars and other social outcasts.
13 The family had been beggared by the war.