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Sentence Examples Not that I've never seen Asian bums and drunks and beggars sprawled out on the street. Originally only those physically incapable were deemed worthy of charity and able-bodied beggars were dealt with harshly. We have to discourage begging and simultaneously find beggars another way of earning a living. On the way to his house Yuki was flagged down by many beggars and poor crippled souls. For those homeless and beggars in the streets, life was even more miserable. Perhaps, the rich people should learn from the poor beggars who always rummage through the garbage for their daily survival. If it was any other country, you might even feel sorry for the poor beggars. An early morning taxi takes us to the bus station, where I am besieged by beggars. Indeed, the poor beggars attending the meeting in April would have witnessed Lee's wholehearted endorsement of his chief executive's vision. Plus listen to my show this week to see how you can get in for free on my guestlist, you lucky beggars! Let the poor beggars have a childhood and allow reception-class teachers to down their clipboards and go back to teaching them. The elephants, had, of course, knocked these down in their passage, so going downhill was one long slide and going up beggars description. The moan that the new town council members were not formally invited is not really worthy of any comment save to say it beggars all belief. To suggest that it could have happened as a belated reaction to a pre-election budget, no matter how lavish, simply beggars belief. It beggars belief that a group of local councillors can really believe there is any merit in this option. It beggars belief that anyone could do such a thing, let alone to a defensive pensioner going about her weekly business completely innocently. It beggars belief that the system allows funding bids to be assessed in this way. This is going to be a little messier than I like, but beggars can't be choosers. Ten per cent of all the ministerships in all the States should be reserved for beggars to improve their standard of living overnight! To call lifting 25 million people out of fear and despair, into freedom and hope, a misbegotten adventure beggars belief. Show More Sentences On the other hand, his wife was a miserly woman who had no interest in feeding hungry street beggars. On top of that, not only do the miserly beggars want the land for free, but they want it exempt from transfer tax. Not to mince words, this was an appalling sitcom, and how it lasted for four series beggars belief. Quite frankly, this piece of research is so unexpected, so out of the blue, it beggars belief. I think National must have had a brainstorm, because it just beggars belief. He writes about artisans, peasants, the rural poor, vagabonds, and beggars. Second, many of the council members' constituents, especially potential campaign donors, may demand that the city do something about the beggars. The sheer bulk of a large great white shark under water beggars description. The next type of beggars were some people walking around with stacks of CDs in their hands on the Walk of Fame. A pensioner who was harassed by aggressive beggars in Swindon town centre has backed a campaign to stop vagrants pestering shoppers for cash. The hypocrisy and plain hard-heartedness of this administration beggars belief. City authorities will plan to wipe out the sight of beggars and hawkers selling flowers or newspapers at intersections. Some beggars operating in Swindon already use hard luck tales, often creating elaborate stories and faking emotion to tug at the heartstrings. The perception that many people have of street beggars and the homeless is that they are a bunch of alcoholics or drug addicts. Immediately, 10 beggars rush in to enjoy a wholesome meal of vegetable curry and chapatis, rice and dal. We will be doing a greater act of charity by helping these beggars earn a respectable living. Also, never tap the bowls on the table with chopsticks as many Chinese believe only beggars do this. A campaign to clear York streets of beggars has got off to a promising start, according to those running it. Some have been forced to find work as street musicians, peddlers and beggars. It beggars belief to think that these concurrent developments are mere coincidences. Show More Sentences Furthermore, the greater the incidence of substance abuse, the greater the supply of beggars, indirectly increasing the demand for regulation. To dirt, chaos, maharajas, beggars, cows on the road, roaring rivers, fervid sunshine, unpredictability, and loud laughter. In January this year, York police moved to clear the streets of beggars officers said were plaguing tourists and denting York's image. Police believe the change will help them track aggressive beggars and those who might be involved in more serious crime. It beggars belief how anyone with any sense could buy this pointless drivel. I have seen some young beggars with expensive flashy running shoes, with a quality brand name. Are Brighton's beggars now carrying a float so they can give out change to people like me? The fact that this garbage beggars up everybody's postal service for weeks to come is but the physical consequence of this fraud. Ross may simply have forgotten to mention this, but it is the fact that there is no legal penalty that beggars belief. Hundreds of beggars queue up near the dargah and occupy positions outside a dozen small eateries. In our country a successful beggar can earn more than a day laborer, because the tradition is to pay something to the beggars. The bothering and begging are exhaustive and unremitting, and the beggars world-beating in their decrepitude and infirmity. Some 10,000 beggars, homeless people, prostitutes and so-called illegal immigrants are being rounded up and forcibly moved. As reported in Monday's Evening Press, York Police have launched a new push to remove beggars from York's streets. His is a world of beggars and pimps, struggling families and dimwitted peasants. They were feared and reviled as street rats and guttersnipes, vagrants and beggars. His subjects were factory workers, bellboys, washerwomen, road workers and beggars. En route to a hotel, we handed out sparkling new cooking pots and jerrycans to bemused beggars. He was shabbily dressed, but not in tattered rags as many of the beggars had been. Quite how the developer thinks this remote area, that is only penetrated by one minor road, is not a wild place beggars belief. Show More Sentences Old women were the stereotypical victims of earlier witch-hunts, but this hunt focused on vagrants and beggars, mostly boys and young men. If approved it would make begging a recordable offence and convicted beggars would get a criminal record. Police officers will be able to identify repeat offenders and aggressive beggars more easily as begging becomes a recordable offence. Faced with these figures, it beggars belief that the Government is prepared to allow people to drink around the clock. My grandmother, who is in an excellent state home, is of an age group who have shown a level of altruism and self-sacrifice that beggars belief. The beggars in the city also indicate that there are thieves, pickpockets, robbers and the like lurking around. It cites problems with beggars harassing shoppers, illegal street traders, shoplifters and pickpockets, litter, assault and robbery. There were bakers selling their wares, and beggars scrambling around in the mud for scraps. During the early modern period, ballad-mongers and ballad-writers were classified along with actors, beggars, and street peddlers as vagabonds. Equipped with low level perch seats to discourage beggars and stray animals from cuddling down, the shelters employ modular construction for fast assembling. I for one prefer to be cruel to be kind, and never give donations to child beggars as I think they should be home in bed or at school not out on the streets begging. If you can handle Delhi's touts, beggars, street-chaos, noise and hard bargaining, then the rest of India will feel like a bit of a walk in the park in comparison. They are so stressed they have become like homeless beggars. His time in Lincoln gave him great pleasure, though he recalls how famine struck the area whilst he was there, and his study was besieged by beggars. This being the recognised time to give alms, I was besieged by beggars, who spread their napkins before us on the ground, sprinkled with a few coppers to excite generosity. I live in London, where daily we come across beggars and homeless people. The way of it was, I was sent out with a broom to chase away the gypsy beggars at the door looking for food or money, and he happened to step in the way. Headway has also been made on getting the homeless off the streets as the amount of tramps and beggars seems minimal in comparison to major UK cities. The first batch, comprising of 14 children, were handed over by the district administration as part of their drive to clear the town of beggars and tramps. He has been accused of murdering beggars to dissect their bodies. Show More Sentences Elizabethan England faced a mounting economic problem as the poor became poorer, and a growing army of vagabonds and beggars roamed the streets and countryside. We'll teach those little beggars not to poach on our territory. After all, the poor beggars can't nip outside for a quick drag, can they? A greater number of beggars could attract more attention and is more likely to create compassion fatigue, indirectly leading to greater demand for their regulation. Unfortunately it was just another Sunday evening rush trip to keep my hand in, as I couldn't be with those lucky beggars spending the weekend down in Wales. Apart from beggaring the public purse, it simply beggars belief. Trying to imagine how these structures were built beggars belief. The beggars and pups program drew fire from animal rights activists who worried the foster dogs might be mistreated. The notion that beggars might be more vigorously pursued is abhorrent. The Elizabethan Poor Law enshrined this right with the practice of sturdy and less sturdy beggars being sent back to their parish of origin ostensibly for help. But it beggars belief that so many have been built and bought and no-one making decisions has even thought about how it is affecting ordinary people. As they say though, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride! Why it simply beggars belief that such a thing could happen! This film is so cheap, ridiculous and inept, it beggars description. Off to the sides, however, the Royal Mile disintegrated into a hopeless muddle of squalid wynds and alleyways peopled by beggars, pickpockets and the poor. In Greece, beggars who ventured out on the streets of Athens on Monday after a three-day cold snap found their cups filling up with both drachmas and euros. I am now told that it originated in England when the poor would beg for food on All Souls' Day and beggars would receive special treats in exchange for prayers for the dead. Most of their income went on schools, almshouses, and the poor, and their charity attracted so many beggars that there was bad feeling in the village. India is so large, so ancient, so complex that it beggars description. The behaviour of some of the late night revellers almost beggars belief. Show More Sentences By all means be appalled by the leprous beggars, but don't allow this to blind you to the rich educational diversity the Third World has to offer. I've had more glowing reviews, but beggars can't be choosers. Either it was a case of beggars can't be choosers or the interview panel had not found me too old, white, middle class and soft-hearted after all. Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, gypsies, beggars, cony-catchers, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished. I carry her to the window, and we sit down on the shady balcony to watch the people beneath and the little group of beggars around the church door opposite. Even if the police had the resources to follow beggars around with video cameras, it is debatable whether this extra evidence would make a deal of difference. It is populated by a pantheon of upper-middle class aesthetes, running the full gamut from self-indulgence to self-pity, gold-digging doctors and junkie beggars. It beggars belief that the Mater Private hit Laya Healthcare with such a bill for a one-night stay. The two sergeants who should have carried out the execution hired four desperate beggars to do it instead. To cyber security experts, the naivety of this statement beggars belief. It beggars belief to suppose that corporate policies can always pursue the best interests of a company. Limousines, electric rickshaws and beggars on the same single-track road do not mix. It just beggars belief that it has taken a retired MP nudging 80 to knock sense into the ditherers who pretend to run this country. To understand the new London, I lived it. I slept rough with Roma beggars and touted for work with Baltic laborers on the kerb. To somehow claim him as a hero for libertarianism beggars belief. The fact this has been allowed to happen in a non-denominational school beggars belief. In 2012, however, Iowan voters are so desperate that they've become the beggars instead. He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars. A NATIONAL homeless charity has warned police in Huddersfield not to demonise beggars. But even by its usual shoddy standards, the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to the desert sheikdom of Qatar beggars belief. Show More Sentences In contrast Levellers argued that all men who are not servants, alms recipients or beggars, should be considered as property owners and be given voting rights. The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars. Following these directions, during the month of October, Islamabad arrested a total 879 beggars that include 364 men, 205 women, 27 children and 280 teenaged girls. Some try to sell handkerchiefs and water cans while others are beggars. Examples from Classical Literature We none of us ever do believe it of them when the little beggars are in long clothes, or first breeched for that matter. One of them beggars had come up behind, and swung his gun round, and fetched him a purler on the back of his head. I visited three kips there, saw eighty-four new faces, and learned something about the wages of beggars in England. Except that of the Caserta beggars, we never saw any thing like the hunger of the Caserta fish. A knave and a quean, a thief and a strumpet, a couple of beggars, a brace of baggages. None looked starved, there were no deformed people, no beggars, and the natives were tidier and better dressed. To 84 be shouting at dirty little beggars like those and disgracing us all! A vessel came in to-day from Hormuz on the eastern shore, bringing a horde of beggars. As usual, a row of beggars was standing before the door, imploring the charity of the churchgoers. The appearance of the dolphin when just out of the water beggars description. He laughed at the little beggars, and then a Nabataean took them to be sold at Clysma to a merchant from Rome. I had the two little beggars caught, and they got a well-deserved correction. And yet it wouldn't do to let him go to the back-door, 'as if we were beggars,' said Frances. I'm a bit miffed about the album category, but beggars can't be choosers and I am a beggar. He borrows money right and left and lavishes it upon beggars. The mandril appeared to have quite forgotten his dislike of beggars. They consist of beggars, mechanics, writers, and even artists. Whole families of beggars, not only preyed upon her, but tyrannized. The crassness of such utterances beggars belief and would be hilarious if it was not so tragic. In Egypt and nubia they are eaten only by the poorest beggars. Show More Sentences The poor beggars think that there is something fearsome in this direction, and therefore they avoid it. Cats always get the cream because the cunning little beggars know exactly how to wheedle it out of us. Is this the still militant old man, standing at the corners of the three kingdoms, on all hands coercing alms of beggars? How much more forcible are his beggars than those of Callot! But it is the fault of this gadding up and down Hind that a king's widow must jostle all the scum of the land, and be made a mock by beggars. The traffic of the house took place through a side-door, and there was a back door as well for the gardener and for beggars and tramps. Out-and-out beggars get taken care of, but poor gentle folks fare badly, because they won't ask, and people don't dare to offer charity. What, when the great Pope washes the feet of beggars, using his tiara for ewer? The bitter law takes the convicted man's estate and beggars his widow and his orphans. These beggars by the boat had every reason to go distracted with funk. The only parley Ill have with that pack of lousy beggars will be hot shot! And his suggestion that separated parents should put up their children on sofa beds also beggars belief. The farmers were impoverished, and the poorer people made beggars. Then they take 'm to the poorhouse, where nobody but beggars live. Some people contended that the reason Mademoiselle Reisz always chose apartments up under the roof was to discourage the approach of beggars, peddlars and callers. Jade Ewen may have salvaged some of our national pride last year by coming a respectable fifth, but let's face it, going on our past form, beggars really can't be choosers. Ottawa In a bid to cut down on beggars and panhandlers hassling pedestrians for small change, the Mayor of Ottawa has turned to parking meters to solve his problem. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with beggars What is the adverb for beggars? What is the adjective for beggars? What is the noun for beggars? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words beggar-my-neighbour beggarly beggarliness beggared beggar belief beggar beggars can't be choosers beggary begged begger beggers begging 7-letter Words Starting With b be beg begg begga beggar