How to Use vagabond in a Sentence

vagabond

noun
  • The 22-year-old Colton’s Point man was charged with rogue and vagabond and theft.
    Washington Post, 13 June 2019
  • The A’s may have hit on this prospect vagabond at the right moment.
    Carl Steward, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2017
  • That’s one of the few good things about life as a baseball vagabond.
    Dallas News, 10 June 2022
  • The Mannings lived a vagabond life, chasing the next team and the next contract.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2020
  • The 28-year-old Annapolis man was charged with rogue and vagabond.
    Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • A Beltsville man, 19, was charged with robbery, theft, assault, and rogue and vagabond.
    Washington Post, 3 May 2017
  • Two Columbia males, ages 17 and 15, were charged with rogue and vagabond.
    Washington Post, 25 July 2019
  • And there was a guy, an old hippie vagabond, who was giving a talk, who had done this.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The Browns, long one of the AL's worst teams, assembled a vagabond roster that got the most out of its talent.
    Paul Newberry, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • These vagabond spikes of the Padres, longing to stray, are Los Angeles bound.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
  • If ever there was a good time be a vagabond, this stretch of the Lakers’ schedule might be as good as any.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Vogt could easily have been the next Crash Davis, a vagabond catcher who got only a whiff of the big time.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • He’s the Not Quite man of sports, full of promise and conviction but always, in the end, a sporting vagabond.
    Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2021
  • Is Fern a vagabond, a nomad, a pioneer, or just a hermit?
    Armond White, National Review, 15 Jan. 2021
  • When there is a murder at the Indian school, the four young vagabonds flee to the river, canoeing their way to St. Louis.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The rink closed for several months, leaving him a skating vagabond.
    JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Quite the vagabond, Seth Curry has played for eight teams in seven seasons since breaking into the league.
    Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Two District men, ages 21 and 22, were arrested and charged with multiple counts of theft and rogue and vagabond.
    Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Now, this band of vagabonds is three wins away from the most unlikely of national titles.
    Paul Newberry, ajc, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Calvin Ashley’s football career has been somewhat like that of a vagabond.
    Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 7 May 2021
  • An Annapolis man, 26, was charged with theft, rogue and vagabond, and trespassing.
    Washington Post, 14 June 2017
  • Like Garcia, Foles is now in the third act of his career, fresh off a vagabond’s existence as the best available option.
    David Murphy, Philly.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Mitch is a notorious vagabond who loves his out-of-the-suitcase lifestyle.
    Redbook, 10 Sep. 2012
  • He was charged with theft, rogue and vagabond, and disorderly conduct.
    Washington Post, 9 May 2018
  • Perriman has had a bit of a vagabond career since being drafted in the first round by the Baltimore Ravens in 2015.
    Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The vagabonds do miss some creature comforts: no beer for Ted as alcohol is currently banned in the town.
    cleveland, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Howard's decision to stay in Orlando marked the beginning of the vagabond stage of his career.
    Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
  • A 1597 act laid down strict guidelines for beggars and vagabonds and required towns to provide a prison for the undeserving poor to be housed in.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2017
  • The writhing moon goddesses in celestial white linen, beholden to neither human nor lease, vagabonds with steal-your-soul smiles, divining off-kilter rhythms from the dark star void.
    Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • At the time, many were trying to put their lives back together after their experiences at Christians of Faith in 2018, an initial season in which several dozen teenage boys lived like football vagabonds.
    Billy Witz, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023

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