Sentence examples for entirely destitute from inspiring English sources
Canning's father, the eldest son of an Irish landowner, was disinherited for his marriage to a beautiful but penniless girl and died in 1771, leaving his wife and year-old son entirely destitute.
"You will please remember, Right Rev. Sir, that I have brought nothing from the old country but a silver chalice, and I am informed by the Trappists, that the region I am sent to is entirely destitute, or almost so, of sacred vestments; also, that it is very difficult to get Mass-wine.
Nevertheless, his plan is entirely destitute of the kinds of details that might tell the Legislature -- or the voters -- which programs he wants to jettison.
According to Charles Walcott, the regimental historian, despite Morse's decades of experience with the State Militia, he was, "entirely destitute of soldierly enthusiasm or spirit, wonderfully ignorant of military drill and maneuvres, and a wretched disciplinarian".
"By early January, I was completely destitute," Ms. Reynolds said.
He recovers but is now completely destitute.
"There are necessities which only the destitute student knows.
All things are destitute of power, force, or energy.
Not all of them are destitute.
I am a destitute like all these others".
