Sentence examples for levels of penury from inspiring English sources

The members of the leadership would presumably not suffer — their personal coffers are full — but ordinary Venezuelans would experience unimaginable new levels of penury.

The 1910 census indicates that not all artists led lives of penury.

There is one grand exception to this rule of penury.

He can keep the appearance of penury at bay.

In western Germany, signs of penury are hard to find.

But years of penury, gloom and what Louisa called "hard grubbing" had also taken their toll.

Nor does anyone dispute that policymakers should try to help large numbers of poor people out of penury.

Though Jardine may be right to diagnose a scar, her talk of penury seems exaggerated.

After several years of penury, the cash has started flowing again to the militants.

Implying a situation of penury and hence the lack of a bed.

Robert Burns was the poet of penury, as much as of life and liberty.