indigent

Example Sentences

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He also raised funds to provide free inoculation for indigent children in Philadelphia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

As a young immigration lawyer in California’s Central Valley, Matthew Barragan cut his teeth defending the rights of indigent workers facing deportation.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2025

And in North Carolina, the campaign is narrowly focused on promoting Democrats’ successful efforts to expand Medicaid, which will extend nearly-free government health insurance to thousands of people and reduce the indigent population for hospitals.

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2024

Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the Constitution prohibits the prosecution of indigent people who sleep in public places when there is no available shelter space.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2024

Poverty to him was an abstract, distant concept, applicable to the tenants at Tres Marias and the indigent patients his brother Jaime helped; he had never had any direct contact with it himself.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende