Sentence examples for * penury from inspiring English sources

Justitia lives in great penury.

Gregory XIII spent the papacy into penury.

The second group live in penury.

Worse, droughts reduced them to penury.

It is not just pensioners in penury.

Nauru spent years in desperate penury.

Many families were reduced to penury.

Most of the remainder have been reduced to penury.

Olympians die in penury and in want of medical attention.

Even so, many of them slid into penury or alcoholism.

Luxury and penury have always coexisted there in uneasy tension.