How to Use homeless in a Sentence

homeless

adjective
  • The idea of a big, all-in-one homeless campus is not new.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • The man said his son is homeless and lives in the Tremont area of Cleveland.
    cleveland, 30 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • But some of the dozens of homeless people who live there don’t want to leave.
    Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Many have ended up in homeless shelters and on the streets.
    New York Times, 4 Aug. 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
  • To get the full $1,500, a student would have to be a low-income, homeless foster youth.
    Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The staff, taking him for a homeless person, moved to usher him out.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Access, Teague said, is a huge need of not just the homeless, but for the rest of the community as well.
    Arkansas Online, 31 July 2022
  • 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
  • Five homeless people in Grants Pass were among the plaintiffs.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • At the start of this year, Donovan was spending some nights at a homeless shelter, LaTonya said.
    Lucia Walinchus, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022
  • After the fire, at least 5,000 New Yorkers were homeless.
    Robert G. Kaiser, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Most of those the program was designed to help remain homeless.
    Julie Zauzmer Weil, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The ministry ran an unpermitted homeless shelter that was shut down last year by a court order.
    Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Anyone who works at hospitals, homeless shelters, prisons, jails and nursing homes are also at higher risk of infection.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 1 May 2025

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