pauper
Example Sentences
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A Nigerian mum might say: 'Do you want to live your life as a pauper forever?'
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2025
It also helped that Crawford was not exactly a pauper and got only marginally outspent in a race that saw over $107 million in expenditures.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2025
Follow the adage "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022
De León noted that when Villaraigosa beat incumbent Hahn in 2005, Hahn was a pauper compared with Caruso.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2022
And once in the new country, arriving in Seattle, she found she had married a pauper.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Vocabulary lists containing pauper
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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"A Rose for Emily"
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