Sentence examples for severe penury from inspiring English sources

Previously, Eva being only a year old, Duarte had permanently returned to his legal family, leaving Juana Ibarguren and her large brood destitute, in severe penury.

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

Their treatment of savers is more petty and, at the individual level, less serious; it does not cause penury.

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

"Penury, George, eh?

Penury loves company.

Justitia lives in great penury.

Gregory XIII spent the papacy into penury.

The second group live in penury.

Most of the remainder have been reduced to penury.

Olympians die in penury and in want of medical attention.