Sentence examples for spent broke from inspiring English sources

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Phil lived just above the poverty line growing up, and after an adolescence and young adulthood spent broke and in and out of jail, he set up a chain of head shops called Smokees, selling smoking paraphernalia and legal highs.

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Harv, who admittedly spent 12 years broke before cracking the wealth code, says he eventually learned to be rich, but it took him even longer to figure out how to balance the rest of his life.

"We've been raped and pillaged by the other clubs, spent 43 years going broke.

In fact, Mathias (Peter Friedman), who is 50, childless, thrice-divorced and broke, has spent a lifetime keening in resentment and self-pity at his father's neglect.

In his autobiography, Robinson states that by 1965 he was broke, having spent all of the $4 million in earnings he made inside and out the ring in his career.

The nation, which is close to broke, spends over a quarter of its GDP on the fuel and pays colossal subsidies to keep energy bills affordable.

Other realities of the job, he said, were "being broke, spending massive amounts of time staying in fleabag hotels, and there are aspects of the writing that are just data entry".

After her husband went broke spending $100 on screening donor blood, an appeal went round Juba that eventually resulted in her finding an A+ match, which was taken after the family of another patient brought fuel to run the blood bank's generators.

Katie and I spent years studying how working families go broke after a medical emergency.

In 1942 she spent a night with two friends who were broke.

Low point: I spent a lost decade living in my Hackney studio, absolutely broke.

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