Sentence examples for destitute just from inspiring English sources

The Red Cross is setting up centres to help the destitute, just as it does in developing countries.

People here are often not destitute, just the working poor and retired on an inadequate pension.

Today I work with people who are destitute – and just how mainstream that destitution has become is astonishing.

With times as bad as they are, it is not just the destitute who can use a helping hand.

That leaves a large, destitute and aggrieved population just across the border in Bangladesh that is susceptible to radicalization.

In the novel, cousin Grace is a tale-bearer and a time-server who does Lily out of an inheritance; cousin Gerty is a modest, earnest girl who hopelessly loves Selden, selflessly helps her rival Lily, works among the destitute and lives in just the sort of drab bachelorette flat that Lily is afraid of winding up in if she doesn't marry money.

In the scene, Jean Michel, who had been a destitute graffiti artist, has just been discovered by the art world and become celebrated and wealthy; he goes to the counter at Dean & DeLuca and orders a big tin of caviar as if it were penny candy.

I came to America to escape persecution, but have found an unworkable system here that leaves me just as destitute as when I left Zimbabwe.

Hems may rise and fall (or do both asymmetrically), and feather boas may come into vogue or go out, but black -- optically destitute of any color -- just keeps rolling along.

"They just left us destitute, straight up".

In 1956, Leary's father, with whom he had just reconnected, died, destitute, in New York City.