Sentence examples for penniless at from inspiring English sources

I was pretty penniless at the time, so it really helped financially.

But he died penniless at age 27 in 1938 in Greenwood.

Married when they were penniless at the depth of the Depression, the couple shared a passion for social justice.

Deported last September, he was stranded, penniless, at the Milan airport until an older brother in New Jersey found some cousins who sent him on to Pomarico.

At his conviction he protested his innocence and complained bitterly that the people of the United States had "allowed my father to die penniless at 48, and I had to take care of his family".

Collectively, they trace just how far the comedian's family has come since the days when his paternal grandfather, a 15-year-old tailor from Stanislau, then part of Austria, arrived by himself, penniless, at Ellis Island.

A deadbeat was a penniless "sundowner" at the very end of his tether, and a no-hoper was an incompetent fellow, hopeless and helpless.

I overdosed twice; had numerous infections up and down my arms from shooting heroin; developed abscesses, which infected my heart with a condition called endocarditis; and contracted Hepatitis C. I ended up living with other addicted musicians, wayward writers and penniless painters at the Chelsea Hotel.

You may be deeply in love now, and that is something to be treasured, but nothing will ramp up the heartbreak of a separation more than knowing your financial stability could also crumble and you could be homeless and penniless, and at the mercy of not only your partner's good graces but also those of his new love interest.

The new novel's obvious precedent is 1981's Tar Baby, the only other of her novels to have a contemporary setting, in which a Sorbonne-educated fashion model, Jadine, who fears she has been deracinated by the world of white culture she has come to inhabit, falls in love with Son, a penniless drifter at complete ease with himself and his blackness.

Although penniless, he regularly ate at the finest restaurants in San Francisco; restaurateurs took it upon themselves to add brass plaques in their entrances declaring "[b]y Appointment to his Imperial Majesty, Emperor Norton I of the United States".