Sentence examples for was destitute from inspiring English sources
adjective
Lacking something; devoid; especially lacking money; poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken.
In the interim, the family was destitute.
More than a third of the population was destitute.
"For seeing the good in him when he was destitute".
She was destitute, estranged from her eldest daughter, and had spent time in a mental institution.
The farmland wasn't there: they'd just come out of a war; it was destitute.
But when she died, in 1960, she was destitute and all but unknown.
It explained that she was destitute and asking for help or money.
He spoke English, and said he had been a teacher, but now was destitute.
He was destitute despite having received grants from N.B.A.-affiliated organizations and taking cash out of his pension plan.
But the family was destitute because Kim Guang Choel, Han Mee's father, had fallen ill from a rat bite.
This painting was so important to Vermeer that his widow tried to keep it from creditors even when the family was destitute.
