Sentence examples for destitute with from inspiring English sources

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Mr. Hartford wasn't exactly destitute, with $10 million left.

Some of these widows, and their children, are left destitute, with no livestock (the traditionally favored currency of the Maasai).

I mean, they come by, begging for scraps of food because they're destitute, with no respect for how tough other people have it.

Left destitute with nine children and no husband at the beginning of the Depression, she kept her family together, reasonably well fed and clothed.

Seven years ago, Ana Martinez de Luco, a Roman Catholic nun, became a canner herself in creating Sure We Can, a project for the destitute, with the help of Eugene Gadsden, a street legend as a scavenger.

It has left many Maasai destitute, with young men now converging in the towns to hustle tanzanite, a semiprecious local stone, or to seek poor-paying jobs as night guards.

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To reduce the violence, he said, the nation needs to control illegal immigration, especially from war zones, which has increased the population of destitute immigrants with military training and experience with violence.

While Mr. Putin strides the world stage, a failing economy kills destitute alcoholics with toxic booze.

The Ismailis in the destitute south, with their historic links to Yemen, are not-so-benignly neglected.

Galliano arrived in Paris in 1990, a nearly destitute punk with unmistakable talent and an unrivalled reputation for personal excess.

He built whole streets for the near destitute, along with football pitches, churches and simply giving away cash.

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