Sentence examples for stony-broke from inspiring English sources
adjective
Alternative form of stony broke
If you're anything like me, you'll be stony-broke.
I was calling on a millionairess, or someone who was stony-broke, depending on the gossip.
La Bohème features a stony-broke painter called Marcello among its suffering dreamers.
She says she is "stony-broke" and would be struggling, were her husband not a doctor.
The country was stony-broke, yet conscription emphasised the mirage of its importance on the world stage.
The Left Bank, Rhys's debut collection, which Ford Madox Ford helped bring to publication, comprises a series of modernist fragments in which hard-up bohemians get mournfully smashed in Paris: "But there she was stony-broke and with a hand that was rapidly losing its cunning, seeking oblivion in a cheap Montparnasse café." Much of it resembles the most insubstantial parts of Maupassant.
In the previous three years our business had collapsed, my TV and journalistic work dried right up and I was completely, stony broke.
Inspiration on that one never really struck, and when the Parisian impresario François Ravard turned up one day – himself formerly a teenage runaway from provincial France, and a young protégé of Serge Gainsbourg – he found that Marianne was stony broke but still persuading the not-so-local mini-cab company regularly to bring her fags.
· You have to pity poor Scottish Opera, stony broke after blowing its budget on its brilliant, if ruinously expensive, Ring.
STONY BROOK University Cafe, Stony Brook University Mark Erelli and Jeffrey Foucault, folk.
