Example Sentences

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Deserted by Milo, they trudged homelessly through the reveling masses in futile search of a place to sleep.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Among pseudo-Christian barbarians, as Heine described them, the Olympian deities still wander homelessly, scarce emerging from beneath obscure disguises, and half ashamed of their own divinity.

From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock

A forlorn bird here and there made a thin piping, as it flitted homelessly amid the bleached long grasses, and the frail silk of the milkweed pods came floating along ghostlike on the evening breeze.

From October Vagabonds by Le Gallienne, Richard

Nothing moved on the cliffs, except some small birds which flittered homelessly among the black and twisted burnt gorse.

From A Poor Man's House by Reynolds, Stephen Sydney