Sentence examples for destitute are from inspiring English sources

Patients, unless destitute, are charged.

The people helping the destitute are living the ideals of Christianity.

As one Twitter user put it, "the destitute are now considered vermin".

By Elizabeth Kolbert People who are destitute are surprisingly likely to describe themselves as happy.

Only the destitute are protected in old age because Medicaid pays their nursing home fees.

That the destitute are a different species altogether; inferior and responsible for their demise.

Giving relief to the destitute is both unwise and unfair.

A massive influx of at least 1m Syrian refugees, most of them destitute, is making Lebanon, with its mixed populace of 4m, increasingly tense.

Griffith had produced The Struggle independently and, although not destitute, was never again able to finance another film or find regular employment in the motion-picture industry.

There was no further mention of the Foundation of the Oppressed, whose purported mission of serving the destitute was hard to reconcile with the film's staggering budget.

Above all, Professor Mokyr says, "in the Middle Ages and in classical antiquity, the destitute were the vast majority of the population".