"in destitute" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that describes someone who is extremely poor and lacking basic necessities. Example sentence: Many families throughout the world are living in destitute conditions.
And most are stuck in destitute conditions.
In the north, there remain at least another 1.5 million displaced southern Sudanese, and hundreds of thousands more are uprooted in the south by interethnic violence, while in Darfur, more than two million displaced persons have been languishing in destitute camps since 2004.
India's state-run power industry struggles to get enough fuel thanks to mismanagement and bureaucracy, even its brightest youth can't land a spot at a good university and about third of its citizens live in destitute poverty, with hundreds of millions malnourished.
In the last year, Ms. McBride has been roaming the country performing with her small band on her "Home Tour," which has a similar spirit to her old Brooklyn apartment: it is an unglamorous and even unsettling tour with appearances in destitute parts of cities, but that is the point.
At the same time, it's a place proud of its old Corsican and French-Italian mob heritage (a popular downtown clothing store was named for a famous mob boss), and the prevalence of drug dealers and North African gangs does partly explain why there's relative calm in destitute areas: Calm is maintained for the sake of their businesses.
Hopkins's work on cats and Liverpool reflected the popular and political aspects of Picture Post's mission: two million readers were as likely to be interested in the pets and strays on the bomb sites of the capital as in destitute Merseyside families.
Or maybe for people who don't turn up to drop-ins for destitute asylum seekers in a chauffeur-driven Mercedes?
Safe, if destitute, in a makeshift camp in Lebanon, Adnan lives with constant reminder of the brutal war – his own body, his continuing fear.
A few days later, Brand turns up at a drop-in for destitute asylum seekers that I am involved with.
Another time he was observing a drop-in for destitute asylum seekers at which I volunteer – he was researching a story on asylum.
I founded Orphans International Worldwide after meeting my son in a destitute orphanage in Indonesia when he was only ten months old.
