The phrase "a destitution" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It can be used when referring to a state of extreme poverty or deprivation, but it is more typical to use "destitution" without the article "a."
Example: "The destitution faced by many in the region is alarming."
Alternatives: "extreme poverty" or "severe deprivation."
This section was built as a "Destitution Road" in the mid-19th century to provide work for the dispossessed and starving -- the potato famine struck here at the same time as it did in Ireland.
The freed slaves of Amity end up as starving castaways squatting on barren land — a destitution from which Miss July will be rescued, many years later, by Thomas Kinsman, her foundling son, who was taken away in infancy by Baptist missionaries to be raised in England.
It is time "the people" wake up and grow up, before they permanently drive this country into a destitution ditch.
Hodges-Wu nothatthat many asylum seekers' lack of access to toiletries, housing, and other basic necessities revealed a "destitution that you don't see in typical American experiences".
On the impoverished Isla Tierrabomba, Cartagena's lavish skyline gleaming in the distance, he coaxes a fisherman to proudly proclaim the triumph of happiness in a place of destitution -- an apt scene in a world growing increasingly polarized by the widening wealth gap.
Nor has he or the international community done anything to truly end the crisis in Ukraine, happy to continue this ignored war stuck in a purgatory of destitution where a distant people die to keep a geopolitical chess match afloat.
More than any other novel I know, "Iceland's Bell" recreates a world where Pieter Bruegel would have felt right at home, not merely in its fascination with bumblers (petty thieves, purblind watchmen) and grotesques (faceless lepers, hanging corpses), but also in its unearthly ability to find beauty in a landscape of destitution, wisdom in a congress of fools.
In the novel Shantaram, Linbaba's Mumbai is at once a place of glamour and destitution – a place where spectacular wealth and devastating poverty live side by side.
In its continuing unofficial mission to prove that a poetry career need not condemn an author to a life of destitution, Claremont Graduate University has announced the winners of its highly lucrative Kingsley and Kate Tufts poetry awards.
The story conveys the way a single foolish decision can destroy a family, and promise a future of destitution and loneliness.
She is unequivocal in her condemnation of a society where destitution is regarded as a disease and those on benefits are classed as manipulative scroungers.
