Sentence examples for destitute before from inspiring English sources

Madly, they went to Mexico, married and wandered around, destitute, before Cravan vanished, never to be seen again.

It's crushing for the actual families of the dead, many of whom were destitute before losing a major breadwinner.

After all, most 'developed' Asian societies used to be paragons of complacency, stagnation and feudal destitute before they -- or more precisely their states -- shook off bad habits, and adopted as well as adapted 'best practices' from the industrial West and Japan.

But four years later, Johnson is more destitute than ever before.

There are the refugees trapped with "failed asylum claims", who live homeless and destitute for years, before an appeal finally finds that Britain is indeed obliged to recognise their right to refuge.

Unlike younger people who recall only the hardship of the "special period" after the fall of the Soviet Union, Mr. Estévez remembers images of poor, barefoot children and destitute peasants from before the revolution.

He was deported to Tanganyika and then to Kenya, before returning destitute to his native Uganda.

Poor before, the family now 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.

He is referring to pyramid investment schemes that spread across the country before collapsing, leaving many destitute.

"I've never seen human beings so destitute, so helpless and so hopeless before," Rod St. George, a former employee of the security contractor G4S, told SBS. "In Australia, the facility couldn't even serve as a dog kennel.