penury

Example Sentences

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Pep Guardiola is the big spender whose greatest triumphs came on the cheap, even if it may not make him the poster boy for penury.

From The Guardian

The military had led the country since a 1962 coup, driving it into penury.

From New York Times

But run out the money has, and here she is: alive, attractive and facing immediate penury unless she comes up with a scheme.

From Washington Post

Look beyond the fact that the federal poverty level — a family of four making a penny more than $26,500 annually is not considered poor — should really be called the federal penury level.

From Washington Post

Kfouri predicted that the footballer would be “summarily cancelled” anyway, “because he will himself have already cancelled Brazil, and our situation of panic and penury”.

From The Guardian