Sentence examples for for destitute from inspiring English sources

State support for destitute people was patchy, the study found.

In Somerset, he financed a school for destitute families.

For destitute parents, it meant one less mouth to feed; for wealthier ones, a convenient source of unpaid domestic labor.

Or maybe for people who don't turn up to drop-ins for destitute asylum seekers in a chauffeur-driven Mercedes?

The few surviving Charades seem to live out their days as transportation for destitute college students and pizza delivery drivers.

A few days later, Brand turns up at a drop-in for destitute asylum seekers that I am involved with.

In the first, he travels to Canada to visit his fellow-witness of the church in N--, Frank Silverman, who is working through his trauma at a soup kitchen for destitutes in Toronto.

A UN spokesman in Geneva said the appeal was intended to provide food rations for two million destitute people for the next month.

I tried to be there for the downtrodden, for the underdog, for the destitute, to show the client and the people that they have somebody who is willing to stand up for them".

Perhaps it helped to pay for a week's food for a destitute family of Colombian farmers for whom growing coca is the only way of earning money.

Garrets for the destitute gave way to penthouses for plutocrats.Lifts are a "magic machine" in Hollywood thrillers, especially when they get stuck.