How to Use hobo in a Sentence

hobo

noun
Definition of hobonext
Synonyms for hobonext
  • Do yourself a favor and swap out your boxy bag for a hobo.
    — Sarah Boyd, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Abood kept it simple with a large peace-sign necklace and a hobo bag.
    — Greg Burnett, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Devon was played by Devon Abner, who in the episode in question was the one dressed as a hobo.
    — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 15 Jan. 2020
  • If small bags aren’t your thing, another editor made the case for a roomy white hobo.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2019
  • The birds move with comic grace, like Fred Astaire and Judy Garland as hobo swells in oversize shoes.
    — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2017
  • There was also a day in 1959, when Pacino was nineteen and broke as a hobo, that tells what those times were like.
    — Jimmy Breslin, Esquire, 20 Mar. 2017
  • A dive bar, for instance, does not have to harbor rats, hobos or cobwebs.
    — Tim Carman, ajc, 7 May 2017
  • The cops should have dismantled this display of dysfunction and sent the hobo packing.
    — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
  • An African's eye view of Western aid campaigns The piecemeal existence of the pen-wielding hobo.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2012
  • From leather totes to raffia hobos to beach bags, here are our favorite big bags to carry now and forever.
    — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 27 Mar. 2023
  • By the time they were grilled hard enough to hold the load without disintegrating, the doughnuts just became greasy hobo blankets.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Most were hobos and prostitutes, people living on the edge at a time when Cleveland was hard hit by the Great Depression.
    — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The show started with asymmetrical skirts in large, dyed patchwork denim paired with slouchy jackets and hobo bags in earth tones.
    — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2020
  • The state is home to about 500 species of spiders, with three that can cause serious health problems for humans, once bitten: the hobo, yellow sac and black widow.
    — Aimee Green, OregonLive.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The migrant hobos considered these men to be of lower status.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Buddha Buddha was allegedly named for a hobo who frequented the area.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 15 July 2019
  • The hobo spider was in fact removed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s list of venomous spiders in 2015.
    — oregonlive, 18 July 2023
  • Fast forward to bangles, clutches, hobos, more home accents and a nod from Barney's New York (the store just picked up her range of pillows) and Presmer was born.
    — Joyann King, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2011
  • Presenting four styles; a slouchy hobo, an oversized clutch, a braided messenger bag, and a waist belt, Simkhai hit on all the basics a fashion girl needs right now.
    — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The poems depict a world of modern day hobos who lurk in train yards, and roam the underbelly of secondary cities like Moorhead and Bellingham.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Walker pointed to a red leather hobo bag, which retails for three hundred and seventy-five dollars.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The ride circles the museum grounds and includes information on hobo culture and the museum's rolling stock.
    — Chelsey Lewis, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Below, shop sleek backpacks, modern hobos, classic totes with cool hardware, and more.
    — Hilary George-Parkin, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The term is a misnomer (its practitioners were not necessarily bums or hobos), but the name stuck.
    — Anita Gates, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
  • For decades, San Francisco had a large hobo population.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2019
  • And then this Abe Lincoln robot-hobo is terrorizing the town, staggering through traffic, etc.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Leaving her hobo bag or fanny pack at home, Kardashian opted for Jacquemus’s tiny bag instead.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Limitless has a simple set-up: loser/author Bradley Cooper who lives in filth and dresses like a hobo is offered a pill that will make everything all better.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2011
  • This ruched hobo bag from Charles & Keith checks all of those boxes, featuring a nearly 15-inch long body with a wide-capacity inside to hold all of your essentials.
    — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a pleasant, scraggly, modern hobo, surfer-dude aesthetic to Creamery Station.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 22 Nov. 2019

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