pauper

Example Sentences

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A Nigerian mum might say: 'Do you want to live your life as a pauper forever?'

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2025

For most of human history, identity was ascribed at birth: pauper, peasant, preacher, princess.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2024

Follow the adage "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022

De León noted that when Villaraigosa beat incumbent Hahn in 2005, Hahn was a pauper compared with Caruso.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2022

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