penniless

Example Sentences

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Ms. Ypi tells us that the two had been close enough for her grandfather to once offer to settle the penniless Hoxha’s debts with his Parisian landlady.

From The Wall Street Journal

She grew up in London's Hackney, which was then "not overburdened with literary types" - although her parents were "penniless sculptors" so she was exposed to the arts from an early age.

From BBC

Simonaire’s father died penniless after gambling binges near his home in Arizona.

From Seattle Times

Her father, Angelo Tsakopoulos, who as a teen migrated from Greece by himself virtually penniless to California, became a highly successful, very wealthy housing developer around Sacramento.

From Los Angeles Times

The big chunks of the easy-to-find gold that had been lolling around in rivers for millenniums were gone after the first years of the Gold Rush, and Marshall himself died penniless.

From New York Times