vagrancy

How To Use vagrancy In A Sentence

• Male arrestees charged with minor infractions such as vagrancy, loitering, or traffic violations were excluded from the project.
• He then continues: "This experience reiterated the lesson that the vast majority of these wanderers are of the class with whom a life of vagrancy is a chosen means of living without work. THE TRAMP
• He would spend four times that long in “luxurious vagrancy” in the islands, which would ever afterward linger in his memory as “the peacefullest, restfullest, sunniest, balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge for a worn and weary spirit the surface of the earth can offer.” LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
• The next three were called vagrancy: (1) Loafing on the docks; (2) "sleeping out" nights; (3) getting "wandering spells. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
• Stefan Margita, a Slovakian tenor in his Met debut, was both wily and pathetic as Filka, going under the name Luka, who sings a monologue about being sent to prison for vagrancy, where one day he impulsively stabbed a bullying officer. NYT > Home Page
• In Victoria, begging is a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment under the Vagrancy Act.
• She pleaded guilty to committing vagrancy by being a common prostitute or nightwalker.
• Once, without comment, her copperplate handwriting recorded that bail had been provided on a vagrancy charge near Houston. FOLLY
• Like a swallow in vagrancy, covering all the streets lanes in the Capital.
• Famously, he spent a spell as a Highgate Cemetery gravedigger, and was later also deported from Spain for vagrancy while busking in Barcelona.