destitution

How To Use destitution In A Sentence

• The word "ragamuffin," which I have used above, does not accurately express the man, because there is a sort of shadow or delusion of respectability about him, and a sobriety too, and a kind of decency in his groggy and red-nosed destitution. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
• Unfortunately, she does not have the skills to pay the bills, and her farm quickly slips into destitution.
• The scenes of destitution and misery qualify the film's upbeat ending. Times, Sunday Times
• The most sordid destitution -- if ignorance of comfort can be called destitution -- reigned everywhere around. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
• The destitution is so great, so nearly insurmountable, the conditions so desperate, even in the rich fertile area of Russia, not to mention other countries, that in spite of widespread private generosity, what can be provided constitutes only a drop in the ocean. Fridtjof Nansen - Nobel Lecture
• Despite the fact that the destitution still lingers in my mind, trips like these strengthen the morale within a squad.
• He told Mr Justice Collins: ‘It is inhumane to subject someone to that sort of destitution.’
• It has created a new capitalist class, a burgeoning middle class, and an urban proletariat that lives relatively better in sweatshop conditions than in rural destitution. Robert Kuttner: Trade War Is Here -- and We've Disarmed
• In fact the utter destitution of the desperate was not just predicted: it was planned for.
• Far from destitution, Britain would undoubtedly thrive and prosper. The Sun