How to Use vagabond in a Sentence

vagabond

noun
  • That’s one of the few good things about life as a baseball vagabond.
    — Dallas News, 10 June 2022
  • 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
  • Strait is a veteran of the genre known for his vagabond anthems and sweet love songs.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The 22-year-old Colton’s Point man was charged with rogue and vagabond and theft.
    — Washington Post, 13 June 2019
  • 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
  • The rink closed for several months, leaving him a skating vagabond.
    — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
  • He was charged with theft, rogue and vagabond, and disorderly conduct.
    — Washington Post, 9 May 2018
  • Now, this band of vagabonds is three wins away from the most unlikely of national titles.
    — Paul Newberry, ajc, 24 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Calvin Ashley’s football career has been somewhat like that of a vagabond.
    — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 7 May 2021
  • Mitch is a notorious vagabond who loves his out-of-the-suitcase lifestyle.
    — Redbook, 10 Sep. 2012
  • Two Columbia males, ages 17 and 15, were charged with rogue and vagabond.
    — Washington Post, 25 July 2019
  • But the vagabond existence really grew out of her mother’s constant search for work.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • An Annapolis man, 26, was charged with theft, rogue and vagabond, and trespassing.
    — Washington Post, 14 June 2017
  • Their adventure as earth vagabonds, also the name of their blog for budget travelers, hasn’t all been idyllic.
    — cleveland, 2 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Sleeker and more spacious, #Trucklife could just be the next high-end vagabond phenomenon.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 8 May 2018
  • An 18-year-old California man was arrested and charged with rogue and vagabond.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • Howard's decision to stay in Orlando marked the beginning of the vagabond stage of his career.
    — Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
  • Until that signing, Smith, 30, was known for being a basketball vagabond.
    — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2019
  • The original look for Hermes, who was conceived as a vagabond, was a brown rumpled suit and muddy boots, Krass said.
    — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The little colony of vagabonds lovingly constructed the huts' plywood overlaid with plastic sheeting to hold back the rain.
    — Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
  • 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
  • Our surrogate, Kay, is a young woman who ran away from her southern Louisiana home to live as a vagabond.
    — Todd Martensgame Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Texas Tech’s Chris Beard, a coaching vagabond at different times, remind his players of his background.
    — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2020
  • There are no talking-head interviews putting addiction into a moral context, nor are there romanticized vagabonds.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Order books open today for the Transit Trail, and if your vision board calls for a vagabond lifestyle, call your Ford dealer soon.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2022

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