Sentence examples for so destitute that from inspiring English sources

There once lived a painter so destitute that he couldn't afford a single crayon, let alone brushes and paints.

Dillon is now so destitute that Bernanke's middle-class childhood home was just auctioned off in a foreclosure sale.

Mr. Zimbudzana is destitute -- so destitute that the family celebrated the New Year with a 20-cent pack of Zimbabwean Kool Aid; so destitute that two children are unable to attend school for lack of the $6 tuition; so destitute that he cannot buy food to tide his family over until his own harvest, in April.

By Ludmilla Petrushevskaya There once lived a painter so destitute that he couldn't afford a single crayon, let alone brushes and paints.

Meanwhile, Sullivan County, typically described as being so destitute that people would gladly take casino jobs, has begun showing signs of an economic revival.

He described a city so destitute that payroll checks were bouncing, and frightened children armed themselves with rocks and sticks to fight off assaults on their way to school.

Uganda is a poor country, so destitute in fact that the average citizen makes not enough in an entire year to afford a plane ticket to see the world.

(If Alvin is so destitute, where did he get that Rolex?) VIOLENCE -- The film gets bloody.

Those soldiers from The Royal Scots who survived the crash looked so destitute when they returned to Edinburgh that they were taunted by schoolchildren who thought they were enemy prisoners of war.

That is an example of the Love Island cast, so destitute of stress, making stress for themselves to keep their minds sane.

Are the people of Syria so destitute, so cornered by chemical weapons, so oppressed that there is no alternative but violence?