Sentence examples for their penury from inspiring English sources

"I don't want anyone to love me for my money," say the well-to-do New Englanders, and while they live they are resented for their penury.

Everywhere, you're hit by small-scale marketing: stalls selling nopal and guava juice, shoeshines, hats and tobacco, and beggars hawking their penury.

In fact, if it weren't for their attire or makeshift signs declaring their penury, you might easily mistake them for someone who'd merely grown tired of shopping and had decided to sit down and have a quick break.

Despite their relative penury, these people can teach a lesson to American companies about executive compensation.

He rescues the two women from their elegant penury but may not be a reliable purveyor of happiness.

In part, that was because the Republicans who were out to besmirch John Kerry were so good at it that they more than compensated for their relative penury.

Having dispossessed them and pushed them into a downward spiral of indigence, in a cruel sleight of hand the government began to use their own penury against them.

The movie takes place in the summertime in Chicago, and Hannah takes the stairs and the bus and she has no air-conditioning (none of her friends have it either); making the practical implications of their educated penury so palpable is, in its way, a kind of political filmmaking.

In their battle for power, these two parties have reduced their country to rubble and their countrymen to penury.

But because of war and drought, their numbers have dwindled and those who survive have fallen into penury, their flocks having greatly shrunk.

The jobs that her relatives held in the early 20th century — domestic servant, coal sorter, dressmaker — suggest an escape from sharecropping, the system that trapped many former slaves and their children in penury for generations.