Sentence examples for shared penury from inspiring English sources
The era of the Great Depression and World War II was another -- a decade-and-a-half-long ordeal when widely shared penury and peril combined to nurture a feeling of common cause and to inspire a truly healthy sense of patriotic feeling.
The typical elements of his experience – the years of revising, the near penury (his friend Keith Gessen recalled the phone in their shared Brooklyn apartment going unanswered to avoid collection agencies), the countless rejections – makes his atypical success all the sweeter.
Home, a two-up, two-down in Collyhurst, the most benighted chunk of north Manchester, grandpa and granny's house which his dad and mother, his dad's brother and young Leslie were forced, in penury, to share.
During this time, Johnson witnessed Christopher Smart's decline into "penury and the madhouse", and feared that he might share the same fate.
Some Americans may even have ancestors saved from penury by the New Deal.
Despite missing her bonus targets, Green is hardly living in penury having being allowed to keep 8m shares, worth about £10m, that are due to vest in 2015 and 2016 as part of her performance share plan.
Justitia lives in great penury.
The second group live in penury.
Gregory XIII spent the papacy into penury.
