Sentence examples for impending penury from inspiring English sources

At the lower end of the age range, and fizzingly illustrated by Kate Hindley, it's a tale of bravery rewarded, positively a-thrum with human decency in the face of adversity (impending penury, trapezes, lions).

"Penury, George, eh?

Penury loves company.

Impending doom?

Justitia lives in great penury.

There is an impending crisis.

Bernanke's impending departure.

The second group live in penury.

Gregory XIII spent the papacy into penury.

Worse, droughts reduced them to penury.

Penury, truly, is the mother of invention.