pauper

Example Sentences

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It also helped that Crawford was not exactly a pauper and got only marginally outspent in a race that saw over $107 million in expenditures.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2025

Gi-hun, meanwhile, is living like a pauper, holed up in an empty fleabag hotel he owns and refusing to spend any of the fortune he’d won on himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2024

He kept a stash of money sewed into his ragged coat and conveniently escaped for a hot bath and a good meal while pretending to pass as a pauper.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2024

Many were buried in Portland cemeteries, some in unmarked pauper graves.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2024

Playing here, working in the Fishery, and with a wealthy patron on the horizon, I’d no longer be forced to live like a pauper.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss