Sentence examples for penniless for from inspiring English sources

People were left penniless for weeks on end.

Bon – as everyone knew him – was penniless for most of his life.

But Ms. Young hankered for more, and with her husband, Greg Condon, a language teacher, she left almost penniless for Europe.

Almost a third of food bank users interviewed for the study who had experienced problems with the benefits system said they had been sanctioned by social security officials and left penniless for weeks on end, while a further third were left unable to put food on the table because of lengthy delays in benefit payments.

I was penniless for the rest of the term, but I had the time of my life, to be honest.

While the pull to the gold fields was powerful, he could not help but notice the 1,000 who came back penniless for every 1 who came back with gold.

A summer vacation in Europe unexpectedly transformed into an open-ended spiritual quest that had me hitchhiking for several years across three continents as a penniless seeker for truth.

When his uncle commits suicide, Gabriel suddenly finds himself penniless except for his interest in a lovely old Miami Beach apartment building called the Venus de Milo Arms.

At thirty, he's alcoholic, afraid of confronting the bellicose uncle with whom he lives, and would be penniless but for an accident settlement.

Concerning the exploits of the enticing Georgie Rivers, who spurns her devoted but penniless lover for marriage with a rich, elderly lord, "Fast and Loose," which she wrote under the pen name David Olivieri, is surprisingly funny.

The best way to start wrapping one's mind around the Territory is to consider it the contemporary counterpoint to Shakespeare & Company, the Paris bookstore that has sheltered penniless writers for more than half a century.