Sentence examples for his destitute from inspiring English sources

But he was turning into another Haitian despot, wanting absolute control of his destitute country.

Soon after the future Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas entered the first grade, his destitute mother made a momentous decision.

The gritty, hard-trek part of his life had been done when he was six, when his destitute farmer parents had left dust-bowl Oklahoma for California.

MONROVIA, Liberia — How much money did Charles G. Taylor, the deposed president of Liberia, siphon out of his destitute, war-shattered country, and where is it?

'There were people,' he says, 'who wanted to drag me back in.' Would he, Cameron wondered in his destitute, jobless state, be strong enough to resist?

If Kim Jong-un is to become his own man and his own leader, and if he does perhaps have a modernized notion of pulling his destitute nation out of the Steam Age, he will have a lot to overcome.

It's not just his flowing garb, his thick beard and his regal bearing, which Woldeyilma maintains despite his clearly destitute circumstances.

His childhood was chaotic, as he and his mother, destitute, hopped from one residence to another in New York, New Jersey and Maryland.

ARMCHAIR ETHICIST: SINS-OF-THE-FATHER EDITION, REVISITED In the most recent installment of Armchair Ethicist, hundreds of readers went to the magazine's 6th Floor blog to weigh in on a daughter's plaintive question: What does she owe her father — whose white-collar crimes devastated his victims and destroyed his family — now that he is out of jail and, along with his wife, destitute and frail?

It's a good guess that Cosby will end 2016 in prison — and that he will end his life destitute.

It's a good guess that Cosby will end 2016 in prison and that he will end his life destitute.