"end up penniless" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are talking about someone who has no money left, or is in danger of having no money left. Example: If he continues to make bad investments, he could end up penniless.
Because it is the depression, both also end up penniless.
And he wasn't going to end up penniless".
You end up penniless and two stone heavier".
"They start out the most popular person in the world, make a lot of money, big house, cars and everything, and end up penniless".
What if I end up penniless and living on the streets?" Fear of failure does a fantastic job of standing in our way.
Letting Lehman fail was the equivalent of going to the racetrack and putting all your money down on a bad horse going off at short odds — if you win, you make a little, and if you lose, you end up penniless.
Many code-talkers (unable to talk about their secret wartime work) ended up penniless drunks.
Soon he is forced to flee, ending up penniless in London, where he struggles painfully for years before achieving a stable position as an actuary and marrying a well-off Englishwoman.
But when ships are caught by coastguards, the crew ends up penniless, possibly in jail or deported.In this section Sailors stranded in the Gulf Freeze, please Africa's democratic joys and tribulations Exit, in disorder Sierra Leone talks peace ReprintsAlmost invariably, the owners get away with it.
He ended up penniless, sleeping incognito in the London Underground.
But according to the Law Society, the solicitors' professional body, people who have given the best years of their lives to their partner can end up both penniless and homeless when the relationship breaks down.
