penniless
Example Sentences
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Ms. Ypi tells us that the two had been close enough for her grandfather to once offer to settle the penniless Hoxha’s debts with his Parisian landlady.
She has endured relentless harassment and survived suicide attempts; been shunned by family members, including her father; and lived penniless in a slum.
From New York Times
Discriminatory housing practices that have left a disproportionate number of Black people penniless and homeless.
From Los Angeles Times
They eventually settled, penniless, in San Francisco, where they took up residence with Ms. An’s mother-in-law, Diana, who ran a small deli she bought in the Outer Sunset neighborhood in 1968.
From New York Times
A series of bad investments, failed businesses and a divorce left him penniless, and he was briefly homeless in the mid-1990s, living under a bridge near the Astrodome.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
