Vagrant is an English word with synonyms like vagabond or rover. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Vagrant meaning
- A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.
- A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.
- Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
Synonyms of Vagrant
Using Vagrant
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer. | A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond. | Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
- Useful related words include: vagabond, poor person, bird of passage, rover.
- In the example corpus, vagrant often appears in combinations such as: vagrant who, the vagrant, is vagrant.
Context around Vagrant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vagrant
- In this selection, "vagrant" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, muggle, develop, lifestyle, failed and beggars stand out and add context to how "vagrant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a muggle vagrant to create and a vagrant devoted one. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vagrant" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vagrant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The vagrant fled the area before the police arrived. (9 words)
A Vagrant, devoted one of her comic strips to Charles and Georgiana Babbage. (13 words)
Akbar is a vagrant who pops up in places where people lie and preach moral lessons. (16 words)
The titular character is a vagrant who gains vast psychic powers from an experimental drug and uses them maliciously for profit and amusement, only to lose them and become a vagrant again, ashamed that he will be remembered only as a villain. (42 words)
These kind of scenes have become a daily backdrop for residents whose streets are becoming both terrifying and grim as more and more people succumb to the drug - and the vagrant lifestyle it seems to suck them into. (38 words)
As in the beat movement preceding them, and the punk movement that followed soon after, hippie symbols and iconography were purposely borrowed from either "low" or "primitive" cultures, with hippie fashion reflecting a disorderly, often vagrant style. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The titular character is a vagrant who gains vast psychic powers from an experimental drug and uses them maliciously for profit and amusement, only to lose them and become a vagrant again, ashamed that he will be remembered only as a villain.
Hepzibah showed Riddle the locket and cup while he was working at Borgin and Burkes, and he stole both from her, using the murder of a Muggle vagrant to create the locket Horcrux.
These kind of scenes have become a daily backdrop for residents whose streets are becoming both terrifying and grim as more and more people succumb to the drug - and the vagrant lifestyle it seems to suck them into.
The silent film tells the story of The Tramp, a vagrant who tries to romance a blind girl in addition to a budding friendship with an alcoholic millionaire.
They’d have to be, perhaps, to mistake him for a vagrant when he’s actually a member of the elite class just like they are.
However, investigators said that the vagrant failed to produce the net or the cash which resulted in a heated argument between the two.
Portnoy called 911 and followed the vagrant, who reportedly wasn’t wearing a shirt, as he walked away.
Akbar is a vagrant who pops up in places where people lie and preach moral lessons.
During the search operation, Police caught 66 suspect persons wherein six rowdy Sheeters, 32 persons were compulsion addictive whiteners and remaining were vagrant / beggars and other suspects.
In the midst of my vagrant, globe-trotting existence, Andalucía had become my anchor, my home.
The developers behind Dusty claim, for example, that Dusty has a simpler specs model than Docker Compose, and that it handles version-based isolation of app dependencies and updates of services better than Vagrant.
The vagrant fled the area before the police arrived.
When I started doing fieldwork in Borneo 17 years ago, most people thought of tropical forests as wildernesses, hostile to civilised human life and home only to vagrant, primitive people.
After the game's release, the development staff went on to develop Vagrant Story, which featured several subtle references to Final Fantasy Tactics.
As in the beat movement preceding them, and the punk movement that followed soon after, hippie symbols and iconography were purposely borrowed from either "low" or "primitive" cultures, with hippie fashion reflecting a disorderly, often vagrant style.
A Vagrant, devoted one of her comic strips to Charles and Georgiana Babbage.
Free-swimming ( nectonic ) organisms are relatively rare, with the majority of organisms being bottom dwelling (benthic) — either moving about (vagrant) or permanently attached to the sea floor (sessile).
He lived as a vagrant for several months, drifting between odd jobs, eventually finding work as an assistant to a bar keeper, before finally returning to New York City.
He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant.
He then moved to New York to begin a career as a vagrant blue-collar worker with dreams of becoming a writer.
Common combinations with vagrant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- vagrant who 4×
- the vagrant 4×
- is vagrant 2×
- as vagrant 2×