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

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

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

And once in the new country, arriving in Seattle, she found she had married a pauper.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson