How to Use homeless in a Sentence

homeless

adjective
Definition of homelessnext
  • The idea of a big, all-in-one homeless campus is not new.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • Take a tour of the 312-square-foot house that may help homeless Utahns get on their feet and out of the cold and heat.
    — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • There were 16 people in the area who were homeless, Bass said.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Now, with the world’s eyes on Paris for the Olympic Games, many homeless people have been moved out of the city.
    — Gabriel Kinder, CNN, 26 July 2024
  • Alone in the world yet again, Viverette was now homeless, bouncing from aunt to aunt, couch to couch.
    — Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The victims were not in or near homeless encampments but were on the streets alone.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • For the fifth year in a row, Jeff Bezos is looking to help the homeless ahead of the holidays.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Rivera, a former homeless man, used the money to pay the mortgages on his house.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The staff, taking him for a homeless person, moved to usher him out.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • His dad was homeless and lived on a beach for a long time, and his grandmother lived in a house with a dirt floor.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Last year, the district cleared 226 homeless people from the boardwalk.
    — Jamie Joseph, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Bogrow, who lives in Texas, said she had been estranged from Yaw, who had been homeless for about five years.
    — Andrew Blankstein, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Julie befriended a woman who was homeless, then spent the night with her in the West Side Boat Basin.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 15 June 2024
  • The man, who police believe was homeless, was pronounced dead at the scene.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Advocates for the homeless have urged the city to open up hotels to deal with the surge of immigrants.
    — Brittany Kriegstein, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The 2,245 RVs in the most recent homeless count accounted for a third of the county total.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
  • After the fire, at least 5,000 New Yorkers were homeless.
    — Robert G. Kaiser, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Advocates have asked the state for $33.5 million in funds to stem the state’s homeless crisis.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2025
  • However there is still a homeless encampment on the south side of the road, which is where Sam lived.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The dog ran off leash, out of a homeless encampment on Toland St., and made its way toward the side of the vehicle, the spokesperson said.
    — Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • And a few weeks after that, staff took in 17 dogs that were either homeless or left abandoned.
    — Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Gerard started showing up again at the sites where his homeless friends were.
    — Matt Kempner, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • One of my last assignments in Little Rock was to write about the death of a blind, homeless man who claimed to have been close friends with Yoko Ono.
    — Will Stephenson, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • The small building now being used as a shelter for homeless drug users in Bad River sits in the shadow of a Catholic church.
    — Lev Facher, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Eight years old and homeless — there are hundreds of children like Relisha in D.C.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • South Station is no longer open to homeless people overnight.
    — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The stories of those left behind Bryant went by Willie and was well-known and loved by advocates for homeless people in the city.
    — Jodi Ooten, The Indianapolis Star, 9 June 2023
  • My dream would be to play a homeless [person] or a drug addict, someone with a lot of issues.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
  • While roughly 3,000 have returned, most remain homeless after more than three weeks, and some will have no home to go back to.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Last year, Sacramento County’s Point-in-Time count estimated there were roughly 6,600 homeless people in the region.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2025

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