Sentence examples for desperate penury from inspiring English sources
Nauru spent years in desperate penury.
Numerous studies have shown that country-specific and cultural factors are determinants in how microfinance will interact with poverty, and there are occasionally devastating tales of failure in which the inability to repay a very small loan has plunged households further into desperate penury.
THEY cast themselves on the seas in leaky boats in their hundreds of thousands, so desperate to escape penury and oppression that they would risk being drowned, murdered or shot.
In a very funny preamble, he explains that, while living in loserish postgraduate penury in Ann Arbor, he was desperate to earn cash and fortuitously landed a part-time job proofreading the newsletters of Zingerman's, that city's internationally celebrated deli and food emporium.
Justitia lives in great penury.
Gregory XIII spent the papacy into penury.
The second group live in penury.
Desperate times, desperate measures.
