| Unlike the penurious English king, Louis provided substantial financial support for full-time investigation. |
| After the Civil War, small-arms technology evolved rapidly, but a penurious Congress and an intractable ordnance board balked at rearming an entire army. |
| Your plan to spend everything you have and more as soon as possible seems a certain recipe for a penurious old age. |
| She never recovered from the Great Depression and lived a penurious existence to the end. |
| The garish festivities are set in one of the world's most penurious places. |
| One promising effort is intended to increase the low personal savings rate in the U.S., which could doom many people to a penurious retirement. |
