Sentence examples for was destitute at from inspiring English sources
He lived generally in poverty for the rest of his life and was destitute at the time of his death in 1898.
In 2007, he joined in a month-long demonstration for nurses outside the Warsaw office of the Prime Minister of Poland, and met British musician Gareth Saunders, according to whom Shaikh was destitute, living off handouts and ate at a soup kitchen.
In the interim, the family was destitute.
More than a third of the population was destitute.
If you're destitute, it's at least partly your fault.
"In the U.S. you don't have to support an elderly parent unless they're destitute," said Laura W. Morgan, a family lawyer at Family Law Consulting in Charlottesville, Va.
The aims of these measures are always directed at human beings who are destitute and whose dignity is in danger.
At least 26,000 failed asylum seekers are destitute, living on Red Cross food parcels.
But on the whole, if you look at the number of people who are destitute, those numbers are falling pretty drastically.
Many children are at risk for a range of reasons; most because their families are destitute and some because they have lost their mother or father or both.
