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How to use beggared in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word beggared? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Why they abandoned their running game to engage in aerial ping-pong with England almost beggared belief and could have cost them the match.
It is totally inconsistent to now argue that we must defend the system that has beggared cattle and sheep farmers.
I realise now that my parents beggared themselves to provide the life they did for us.
But now after a succession of bad fruit years, it is no wonder the farmers complain of being beggared by malt and hops!
This apostasy beggared you and made you believe you are fatherless... How I pity you!
In little more than two years, though, Mr Mugabe has neutered the judiciary, plundered the treasury and beggared the economy.
Whiteread knew that it wouldn't be allowed to stay and yet, womanlike, she beggared herself to make it.
It is dedicated to recognizing that municipalities cannot be beggared by the present circumstances of the economy.
You may be condemning your children to a school career of misery if you have beggared yourself to send them to school with children whose treats and trips are costly.
It was both indefensible and undefendable, a stroke of tactical genius and beggared the question why nobody else had thought of it.
Immigration and tax policy are just as beggared and threadbare and awful.
In neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone, recently-ended wars have cost around half a million lives in 15 years and left millions beggared and bereaved.
The composition of both the school board, which presided over some of the worst schools in the state, and the city council, which all but beggared the place, has remained much the same.
Waters said the Queensland government using these kind of descriptions for helping to open up one of the world's largest coal basins beggared belief.
Belief is all the more beggared when you look at the wider world.
Examples from Classical Literature
His was a name that stood for millions, but he was beggared of hope and purpose.
After I have beggared myself with his troublesome lawsuit, with a plague to him!
You don't think so, but I tell you that, if you let it go on, you will be beggared.
Not a passing glance was turned from the board to look after the beggared gambler.
Dead men could not be beggared, deprived of their independence.
I will stand,' returned Mr Haredale impatiently, 'on this dismantled, beggared hearth, and not pollute it, fallen as it is, with mockeries.
For he brought workers and tenants from his old Devon home to take the place of the beggared or slain Irish.
If I have squandered his fortune, he has beggared me in reputation.
The result was, his principal was beggared, and Joslin rose on his ruins.
Her glory is departed, and with her crumbling grandeur of wharves and palaces about her she sits among her stagnant lagoons, forlorn and beggared, forgotten of the world.
I played the game to an end with Estella, and she beggared me.
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