noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
rare
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A rare transatlantic vagrant , with forewing bluer grey than wing, easily told by conspicuous white crescentic mark in front of eye.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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City authorities are planning a campaign to get an estimated 300,000 vagrants off the streets.
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Our charity provides shelter, meals, and clothing for vagrants.
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The number of vagrants is increasing because of the lack of affordable accommodation for rent in the capital.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He also made a special study of the outcasts, the waifs and strays of industrial society the vagrants and the idiots.
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I leave the refundable soda-bottle on the bench to make it a little easier for the vagrants.
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The Experience has reinvigorated downtown Las Vegas, for years the habitat of the serious gambler and the serious vagrant .
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Then jealousy and anxiety moved in and squatted like diseased vagrants.
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Today's vagrants, squatting under railway arches and in shop doorways, are not regarded as having strayed from anywhere.
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We vagrants have to seem strong when we may feel weak.