Sentence examples for almost destitute from inspiring English sources

Dawn herself died, almost destitute, in 2000.

Emma died, almost destitute, in Calais nine years later.

Cuba opened up to mass tourism in the 1990s, as the Soviet Union's collapse left the island almost destitute.

Enlistment of free blacks already had "left our community almost destitute of agricultural labor" — and slave recruitment was "fast stripping us of the little that is left".

Being employed as a "lokulitems," the disparaging term for reporters who grubbed for local tidbits, was "fearful drudgery, soulless drudgery, and almost destitute of interest," he recalled.

Tiny swamp towns like Clarendon and Brinkley, which are heavily black and almost destitute, rely on nature tourism for the little economic activity they have.

For more than half-century, North Korea, one of the most destitute states in history, has almost always bested the world's superpower.

It was a place of almost total hopelessness, with some of the world's most destitute people, few doctors and run by a particularly repressive dictator, "Papa Doc François Duvalierr.

Kabul is a city of two million people, almost all destitute.

Willis wrote about the pineal gland that "we can scarce believe this to be the seat of the Soul, or its chief Faculties to arise from it; because Animals, which seem to be almost quite destitute of Imagination, Memory, and other superior Powers of the Soul, have this Glandula or Kernel large and fair enough" (Willis 1664, ch. 14, as translated in Willis 1681).

The two lived almost as destitutes early this year in a Lighthouse Mission in Bellingham, Wash., a small city in the far northwest corner of the country.