penniless

How To Use penniless In A Sentence

• She fell in love with a penniless artist.
• Young penniless curates must love somebody as well as young beneficed vicars and rectors. The Claverings
• A series of slapstick events leave both penniless and on the run, where they form a grudging bond.
• The penniless stand at the sea wall, dangling hooks into the surf, and stare out at the oil tankers queuing up in the bay. Times, Sunday Times
• We were penniless and without shoes while people from the same hotel sat next to us in the airport flagrantly eating burgers and chips and drinking coke.
• It is a building where the homeless, bedless, penniless man, if he be lucky, may CASUALLY rest his weary bones, and then work like a navvy next day to pay for it. A WINNER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS
• He lived well, helping the poor, and all other people; he died penniless and unknown.
• I ought to make him feel that I can do without his riches, that I cannot be bought, —neither by comfort, neither by pride, —and though I be utterly penniless, and receiving bread from him, that he is the poor man beside me. III. Essays. Man the Reformer. A Lecture Read before the Mechanics Apprentices’ Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841
• One hundred years ago, Montmartre was a cheap area to live in, and so attracted penniless artists.
• The rhetoric inherited from the Victorian world insists that prostitutes were penniless waifs of the street, servant girls who were seduced and abandoned, or the coarse streetwalkers hardened by city life.