The phrase 'became destitute' is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: After losing her job and being unable to find a new one, she became destitute and had to rely on food banks to survive.
Poor before, the family now became destitute.
Too frightened to return to Zimbabwe and with all support terminated, Moyo became destitute.
Yes, his cousins became destitute crack addicts living in a shed, but they'd dropped out of school and had been unemployed long before crack came along.
One of them said he was relieved when he became destitute because the public treated homeless people better than they treated asylum seekers.
His contributions to other journals became infrequent and, having lost nearly all his savings in the failure of the brokerage house of Grant & Ward in 1884, he became destitute.
Before I became destitute, while life was still sweet and carefree, it was simply easier to enjoy one's existence while thinking of deprivation as a vague concept and ascribing it to fecklessness,laziness or inferiority of some sort.
Take away benefits and the sick become destitute.
Though most people have become destitute under Mr. Mugabe, a few have grown fabulously rich.
Migrants, who face restricted access to jobs and benefits, were disproportionately likely to become destitute.
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn says anyone who becomes stateless would become destitute, because they would be ineligible for benefits.
And with no social welfare services to assist them in caring for their children, they would become destitute.
