pauper
Example Sentences
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However, this nomad only looked like a pauper.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
For most of human history, identity was ascribed at birth: pauper, peasant, preacher, princess.
From Slate • Aug. 3, 2024
Follow the adage "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022
The goal is not to make Putin a pauper.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2022
Playing here, working in the Fishery, and with a wealthy patron on the horizon, I’d no longer be forced to live like a pauper.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Vocabulary lists containing pauper
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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"A Rose for Emily"
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