Sentence examples for destitute man from inspiring English sources

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In a first novel set in contemporary London, a destitute man searches for the daughter he's never met.

A photograph of a destitute man in Spitalfields, in the East End, stopped me cold: it was taken in 1969.

I have seen a destitute man go frantically through a just-published Jack Nicholson autobiography because he used to be Nicholson's chauffeur.

In Roald Dahl's 1952 short story "Skin," a destitute man enters a gallery and displays a portrait tattooed on his back by a now celebrated painter, leading to a bidding war and an unsettling ending.

Also that morning, Ms. Andrews had arranged a bus ride home for a destitute man from Missouri who had come to the area for a job that didn't pan out.

The most famous of his poems is the "Hinkyū mondō" ("Dialogue on Poverty"), which treats the sufferings of poverty in the form of an exchange between a poor man and a destitute man.

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In July last year four members of a family were found guilty at Luton crown court of forcing destitute men into servitude.

A husband and wife who "brutally manipulated and exploited" destitute men by forcing them into servitude have been jailed for 11 years and four years respectively.

Husband and wife James and Josie Connors were convicted in July 2012 of having "brutally manipulated and exploited" destitute men by forcing them into servitude.

A surge of passengers – among them hirsute youths holding hands and a trio of one-legged, destitute men – is held in check by a stern-looking man wielding a stick.

Gabon's jails are filling up with small-time poachers and ivory traffickers, destitute men and women like Therese Medza, a village hairdresser arrested a few months ago for selling 45 pounds of tusks.

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