Sentence examples for they were penniless from inspiring English sources

Once they'd scraped more money together as they were penniless.

Married when they were penniless at the depth of the Depression, the couple shared a passion for social justice.

After his father and his father's parents escaped from Poland, in the thirties, they were penniless, Howard told me.

They were penniless: Kafka couldn't afford to buy a newspaper, and Dymant had to use candle stubs to heat the meal on New Year's Eve , 1924

Before she and her husband received a two-acre plot of land that had been seized from a white farmer several years ago, they were penniless subsistence farmers on a scrap of communal land.

When they met in 2003 at the Royal College of Art, doing an MA in architectural design, they were penniless but determined to complete the long training programme and then find a plot to build on.

So they're not feckless, they are penniless, and now they are destitute.

They enjoyed a millionaire lifestyle while living in the States, but now they are penniless.

To say Leicester were penniless is untrue; all Premier League teams have money.

Sometimes he would get a good sale, but a lot of the time we were penniless.

Less than a decade after retiring, they would be penniless.