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How to use down-and-out in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word down-and-out? Here are some examples.

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There is never a visit to the soup kitchens or the homeless shelters where the down-and-out Irish will spend St. Patrick's Night.
It's like Sugar Minott himself, in fact. He's just set up his new studio in a down-and-out neighbourhood of Kingston.
The loneliness of the impoverished, down-and-out residents as well as that of the author plays a central role.
It is Ma who refuses to abandon the down-and-out Wilson family even though their company may slow the journey west.
But their impact on their down-and-out political parties may turn out to be nearly identical.
He's first seen down-and-out, with a scraggly beard and out of work until his old mercenary buddy Rayburn gets him a job as a bodyguard.
He has a talent for being a down-and-out guy and he has a natural bent for comedy, as Russ reminded me on the way out of the theater.
If I was Dravid, I would have never allowed a down-and-out team to recover its poise and be in a position to sting us back.
And believe me, these three were down-and-out.
The Oscars also like down-and-out characters and misunderstood geniuses, both of which tend to beget low-talkers.
In the final scene, the young woman with her sight restored recognizes Charlie, the down-and-out tramp, as the rich and princely hero of her imagination.
The down-and-out rattiness of a previous generation's Beijing East Village has been replaced by an urban-pioneering, but thoroughly cosmopolitan, entrepreneurial ethos.
Don't count Flickr as down-and-out just yet.
She discovered me as a down-and-out songwriter.
What some call vagrants, of course, others call simply down-and-out.
For down-and-out opiate addicts, bupe can be a lifeline.
Sportspal was a down-and-out Callander-based canoe manufacturer he bought in 1985 and later relocated to North Bay.
Examples from Classical Literature
And the speculators on the inside graduate to the down-and-out class if they play long enough.
But that was nothin' to the down-and-out slump I found him in next night, when I goes around for my writin' lesson and so on.
Had about as much sympathy for a down-and-out, Steele did, as you'd find milk in a turnip.
A man's a millionaire to-day and a member of the down-and-out club to-morrow.
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