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Sentence Examples As a result, many of them have had to resort to shooting kangaroos in order to sell the meat, as they are almost penniless. And when the long-awaited idea finally comes, it gets gratefully nursed like a drink by a penniless toper unable to pay for a refill. Senior partners in legal firms rubbed shoulders with penniless students and dedicated barflies. One hundred years ago, Montmartre was a cheap area to live in, and so attracted penniless artists. I had used all the money to get to England so I was penniless in a foreign land with only the clothes on my back and my sword to my name. By Winter he is penniless, far from home, and buried in an unmarked pauper's grave. She died, virtually penniless, in 1965 after overdosing on alcohol and barbiturates. A penniless Fred, still in striped pants, tailcoat, and spats, hops a freight for New York, with Pop in tow. Tony, a footloose and hard-living traveller, finds himself penniless and without a job out in the wilds of Kenya. We've already mentioned penniless banana growers and people who don't want a stomachful of growth hormones. He plays Valentin, the hot-headed younger son for whom being a de Bellegarde means going penniless. We were completely penniless, with three young children, helpless in an unfamiliar city. Monet valued the comforts of a middle-class existence, and even as a penniless student his love of the finer things in life was noted. They were penniless and Mary knew that a stage career was her only hope of survival. Mind you, I'm also filling up on all the industrial music that I couldn't afford when I was a penniless student. Relocated to a contemporary setting, the story tells of a penniless prostitute chosen and gifted with wealth by the Gods. I was penniless and facing bankruptcy and the prospect of being prosecuted in court for a whole range of civil and criminal offences. I leapt into the car and in gratitude shot off to buy a box of chocolates for my saviours then realised I was penniless and cardless. She and her mother were left penniless after her father died, the family having earlier lost their home to river erosion. Her father's once prosperous business had fallen apart and they were left penniless due to their huge debts. Show More Sentences It was, evidently, some poor penniless wretch trying to keep from freezing to death on the coldest day of the year. I don't just go flying around the country on a whim, dammit, I'm a penniless student! But the relationship ended acrimoniously in 1992, and H took all the money and property, leaving her partner penniless. And a tourist in Krakow does not want to be left penniless, when there is glossy amber to be bought and intricate handcrafts to be bartered over. A walk through the shopping district will leave you breathless and, sometimes, penniless, but it is a worthwhile go. A distraught York mother says she has no idea how she will feed her family over Easter after tax credits chaos left her almost penniless. The movie ignores the fact that he was an alcoholic who died a penniless boozer. A series of slapstick events leave both penniless and on the run, where they form a grudging bond. Nearly one-third of filers claimed they were nearly penniless after paying these fees. A penniless writer used to sit here all day, writing the early draft chapters of her now famous novel. She had been wealthy in Iran, and possibly found a marriage of convenience to a penniless student nurse unappealing. He was under the impression the the hut committee had spent all of the memorial fund and that we were penniless. A man meets a beautiful but penniless girl on a trip to Cuba. They have to keep a close watch on their income and expenses so they don't wind up penniless! The rocker posted a rambling video on his Facebook page claiming he's broke and penniless. They cut where it hurts: the poor, the penniless, the children, the sick and seniors. When his father left him he wanted to follow the same path, and sought to fend for himself, alone and without his penniless mother. My forebears were fantastically wealthy Armenians who came to England from India in the 19th century and married into a penniless but well-bred local family. We have been conjuring up images of the penniless poet, but what we are talking about here is the total marketing of the soundtrack of Titanic. Two stand out scenes include Nelly's painful inoculation from the virus and penniless Georges' humiliating dance for a bottle of hard liquor. Show More Sentences Nadir has told the court he is penniless and that the luxury lifestyle he had enjoyed up to his conviction had been at the generosity of friends. The maximum sentence in Brazil was supposed to be 30 years, he used to say, and died penniless in 2000, still saying it. If he ever finds himself penniless then he will have no trouble at all getting into politics. Because the federal government has been sitting idly by while people were ending up out on the street, penniless. Many die, or find themselves displaced and penniless far from their destination. People should not have to be utterly penniless before they are able to apply for welfare. At Soda Creek, he used the last of his money to pay for steamer passage to Quesnel, arriving nearly penniless. Two years later, weakened by a complex of health problems, Taylor died penniless and alone in the charity section of a local hospital. Tired, alone and penniless, Kisembo decided to cross Lake Alberta to try his luck in Uganda. He grew up as the son of a penniless family blessed with many children in the gardens of the suburbs of London in Victorian England. A penniless king, who goes on foot, bringing his treasures and property with him. Or it might make you overspend on cars and helicopters and lead you to early, penniless death. Nine years of extravagance, fair-weather friends, a stock market crash, a paternity suit and a devastating gambling addiction have left the 38-year-old man nearly penniless. But after reputedly making millions from crime he says he's now penniless. So, to placate his parents, he decides to marry Wei-Wei, a penniless Chinese opera singer in his building. He was born in a barn to penniless parents who were part of a people under occupation. Lemkin died penniless at a bus stop in 1959, on his way to another day lobbying at the United Nations. He told stories about his days as a penniless college student trying to make it in Greenwich Village. When she discovers that he lives alone and is truly penniless, she thinks her luck is in, that she's discovered a candidate for her whirlwind marriage. The penniless Pieret announced his intentions of stealing more art from the woefully guarded Louvre to make more money. Show More Sentences Unlike my enthusiastic but penniless grandfather, I had laws and resources on my side. They are destitute, penniless and possessionless with no future. He also brought on board bankers who could help finance his schemes but things did not go well and he was soon penniless and having to borrow money. Now back in it, they're left penniless and sometimes homeless. We were penniless and without shoes while people from the same hotel sat next to us in the airport flagrantly eating burgers and chips and drinking coke. A GROUP of Irish backpackers have been left penniless after a fraudster cleared their bank accounts. Maria pointed out to John that a penniless marriage would detract from any chances he had of making a career in painting. He was penniless, and no relatives or friends had attended his bedside during his illness. After several unsuccessful attempts, William was assassinated in 1584 and died penniless. With the exception of an annual income drawn from a trust established by his sons in 1844, Owen died penniless. You made money from innocent penniless people. Possibly penniless, despite his advancing years, here too he enrolled in the university, probably because his status as a student would afford him certain advantages. She and Percy now found themselves penniless, and, to Mary's genuine surprise, her father refused to have anything to do with her. Beribboned and bedizened, Martha Barnaby drags her beautiful but penniless niece from watering hole to watering hole in her hunt for a rich second husband. On the way, he made friends with an officer leading a group of colonial recruits.  Upon arrival in La Rochelle, J. C. B. learned that his uncle had died, which meant that he was stranded there, penniless. On a totally different note, Geojit also took part in distributing food to provide meals for penniless patients at the Ernakulam hospital in Kerala State, India. Some of these refugees had been people of means, before the Germans drove them out of their homes and now they are penniless with no future before them. Marie Duplessis arrived in Paris a penniless, unschooled young teenager. On a hill, this former weak defensive bastion of a penniless peasantry has witnessed numerous conflicts from the Roman era through to the battle of the Marne. The veteran had died penniless with no known relative. Show More Sentences Overnight they found themselves penniless because of those investments. A druggist's apprentice in London, Dyott arrived in Philadelphia in the 1790s almost penniless and rented a basement room where by day he polished shoes and by night manufactured shoeblack. A dollar and a quarter seems a small sum, but if you are absolutely penniless it might as well be a thousand. But I try to imagine what it would be like if the head physician of a big hospital would voluntarily ask to be treated like a penniless, sick patient in his hospital. I would be terrified of forcing him, penniless on to the streets. After Guzman's death, the flintily is penniless and starving in a fanatically intolerant country. Mr Hirst and his colleagues would like to make sure it is not extended. The image of the penniless artist starving in his garret makes for great opera but poor commercial logic. His father's death left him disinherited and penniless. By 1828, he was penniless, and Covent Garden held a benefit concert for him. Disasters along the way can cause the migrants to wash up penniless other transit cities, where they struggle to earn enough money to either continue the journey or return home. She plays Annie Quaintain, who tries to rebuild her life in a wild shantytown after she's left penniless and opens a boarding house for labourers who are building an aquaduct. However, just as he is about to go to college, Abel dies and Uncle James cheats him out of all the savings he had up to that point, leaving him penniless once again. The Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 led to a massive influx of thousands of refugees, many of them penniless, that strained Kolkata's infrastructure. Like Keats' other brother, they both died penniless and racked by tuberculosis, for which there was no effective treatment until the next century. The penniless fantasist, who pleaded guilty to blackmail, came up with the scheme after reading about a similar plot against the Ecclestones that was foiled earlier this year. Fisher, having entered the navy penniless and unknown, was delighted. She threatened to disinherit her son and leave him penniless. Examples from Classical Literature Next we were told that she was singing at a music hall and was almost penniless. If I had only been penniless and had loved and married a man who had all his fighting to do yet! He was unhired and unmarried, and was looking for some employment, as he was penniless. Lady Louisa was the only sister of the marquess, a widow, proud and penniless. As she was penniless, the woman was forced to bring her child to this medicaster. Bellaire, though penniless after the disaster of 1815, had managed in the five years to have accumulated much. Behold him, beneath the mass of stale and putrid slime, a castoff, friendless and penniless vagabond. We're sailoring men back from a cruise to Jamaica and pretty near penniless. Zapata remained there for study, and the two Jesuits pursued their journey to Rome in rags, and almost penniless. Lee died in 1952 at age 45, penniless and blacklisted, his name and contributions virtually obliterated from American culture. What good mother is there that would not commiserate a penniless spinster, who might have been my lady, and have shared four thousand a year? Now Jonah's Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless. Tens of thousands of them milling about, homeless, penniless, jobless. While convicted killer Winston Silcott celebrates his pounds 50,000 compensation, PC Richard Coombes has been left nearly penniless. He was literally alone, unfriended, penniless, in a strange country. And to this man she must present herself, late, penniless and unhelpful. But she reportedly returned home penniless to Gondi village in Andhra Pradesh last Thursday. When a handsome but penniless suitor proposes, her father believes he could only be after her vast estate and threatens disinheritance. His bride was not only penniless but deeply involved in debt. What, then, is to become of the penniless, and the unpretty! Show More Sentences Then he was but a penniless, monk-bred lad, unknown and unfriended. Here is the gentleman wanting to get our child, without a shilling to bless himself with, and the poor girl refusing to marry the man of her heart, because she is penniless. He came a cropper, and the girl was left an orphan and penniless. Find more words! 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