How To Use Penniless In A Sentence
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She fell in love with a penniless artist.
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Young penniless curates must love somebody as well as young beneficed vicars and rectors.
The Claverings
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A series of slapstick events leave both penniless and on the run, where they form a grudging bond.
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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
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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.
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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
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He lived well, helping the poor, and all other people; he died penniless and unknown.
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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
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One hundred years ago, Montmartre was a cheap area to live in, and so attracted penniless artists.
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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.
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They'd soon be penniless and homeless if she couldn't find suitable work.
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If it were so, the Countess would be no Countess, Anna Lovel would simply be Anna Murray, penniless, baseborn, and a fit wife for the tailor, should the tailor think fit to take her.
Lady Anna
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A FORMER financial agony aunt has been left virtually penniless after a costly divorce battle.
Times, Sunday Times
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He moved to New York and performed an untraditional roster of penniless actor jobs – yoga instructor, manure shoveller, railroad-loader.
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The aunt of the Countess Ida, who presided over her house during her minority, had foolishly allowed her to contract an attachment for her cousin-german, a penniless sub-lieutenant in one of the
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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Gerald, penniless, had raised Tara; Ellen had risen above some mysterious sorrow; Grandfather Robillard, surviving the wreck of Napoleon’s throne, had founded his fortunes anew on the fertile Georgia coast; Great-grandfather Prudhomme had carved a small kingdom out of the dark jungles of Haiti, lost it, and lived to see his name honored in Savannah.
Gone with the Wind
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But some victims left penniless after investing their entire fortunes with the fund manager cannot wait for the compensation process.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't just go flying around the country on a whim, dammit, I'm a penniless student!
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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
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A gentleman, in my case, would have settled the matter with the kirk-treasurer for a small sum of money; but the poor stibbler, the penniless dominie, having married his cousin of Kittlebasket, must next have proclaimed her frailty to the whole parish, by mounting the throne of Presbyterian penance, and proving, as
Redgauntlet
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They'd soon be penniless and homeless if she couldn't find suitable work.
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Also: panné (e) = broke (c'est une panné = he's penniless) une panne de courant/d'électricité = power failure une panne de moteur = engine failure
Savoir Vivre
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Alone now and almost penniless, he was bereft of hope.
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Would you ask me to abandon that and come to you penniless, compelled thereby to live in perpetual terror in a country where at any moment an enemy might cast at me the word aristocrate, and thereby ruin me?
The Trampling of the Lilies
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He sounds wistful for a time when actors died penniless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hundreds of sports and entertainment figures in Europe and America have earned large incomes in their careers and died penniless.
The Guide to Greatness in Sales
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Laura found herself virtually penniless.
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She died, virtually penniless, in 1965 after overdosing on alcohol and barbiturates.
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Penniless, Theodora became a child comic actor and prostitute in Byzantium with a racy repertoire of sexy acts (at least according to the rather hostile historian of the period, Procopius) before marrying the future emperor, Justinian.
Stella Duffy rides Theodora to victory at Cheltenham
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Elizas father, Jonathan Makepeace, was born in London in 1866 to a penniless Thames bargeman and his wife.
The Forgotten Garden
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The inflation left them penniless
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In the novels of the period the dilemma was felicitously solved by the discovery, on the last page, that the apparently penniless heroine was really a great heiress.
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Monet valued the comforts of a middle-class existence, and even as a penniless student his love of the finer things in life was noted.
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That the opera's third act, with its customs office, had to be relocated to the Franco-Belgian border, whither the tubercular and penniless Mimi could hardly have dragged herself, is the least of its problems.
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Once the highest paid actor in Hollywood, he was blacklisted by the film industry and died penniless in 1943 at the age of 46.
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Alone now and almost penniless, he was bereft of hope.
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A penniless writer used to sit here all day, writing the early draft chapters of her now famous novel.
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He was under the impression the the hut committee had spent all of the memorial fund and that we were penniless.
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A distraught York mother says she has no idea how she will feed her family over Easter after tax credits chaos left her almost penniless.
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In the Neapolitan and Sicilian provinces, parishes were scattered, bishoprics penniless, and priests insubordinate: more than half the ecclesiastics convicted of felonies in 1874 served the cross in the Mezzogiorno.
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During the shelling hundreds of women and children, breakfastless, their hair hanging, hatless, and even penniless, except for their mere railway fares, had rushed to the station and taken tickets to the first safe town they could think of.
The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915
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She says she's highly embarrassed, but the alternative is being homeless and penniless.
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It could look good on your record and help you become governor if you took in penniless, downfallen women and saved their souls.
Sweetbriar
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Nearly one-third of filers claimed they were nearly penniless after paying these fees.
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Jobless and penniless , he had to sleep rough in the fields for several months.
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The movie ignores the fact that he was an alcoholic who died a penniless boozer.
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A penniless Essex University student is auctioning a fondle of her breasts on E-bay to get her through the year.
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He also brought on board bankers who could help finance his schemes but things did not go well and he was soon penniless and having to borrow money.
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He plays Valentin, the hot-headed younger son for whom being a de Bellegarde means going penniless.
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On such occasions, Vittore's accomplices were in waiting; and the unsuspecting stranger -- pillaged and alarmed, would return to the vettura penniless.
A Love Story
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But the massive amounts of money available means sources can often include reluctant sellers and penniless villagers.
The Sun
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In the Neapolitan and Sicilian provinces, parishes were scattered, bishoprics penniless, and priests insubordinate: more than half the ecclesiastics convicted of felonies in 1874 served the cross in the Mezzogiorno.
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He could feel a deep dread building that he might be reduced to a penniless freebooter as quickly as he had risen to prominence.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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It's been pretty much the same with Warman's defamation nuisance suits, too -- typically turkey shoots against penniless shmoes who can't afford lawyers.
Free Dominion files its defence against Richard Warman's lawsuit - Ezra Levant
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She came to this country virtually penniless and seized an opportunity.
Times, Sunday Times
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And when the long-awaited idea finally comes, it gets gratefully nursed like a drink by a penniless toper unable to pay for a refill.
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The legal dispute left them penniless.
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She died, virtually penniless, in 1965 after overdosing on alcohol and barbiturates.
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This money lasted a year, then she was penniless and a battered wife.
Behind Closed Doors - advice for families with violence in the home
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When the narrative is able to be resumed one finds that Wenamon has set sail from the city, and has travelled along the coast to the proud city of Tyre, where he arrived one afternoon penniless and letterless, having now nothing left but the little Amon-of-the-Road and his own audacity.
The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology
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Mind you, I'm also filling up on all the industrial music that I couldn't afford when I was a penniless student.
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Relocated to a contemporary setting, the story tells of a penniless prostitute chosen and gifted with wealth by the Gods.
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But I wonder how many young chaps nowadays, in this civilised twentieth century, would know how to go about it, if they were planked down, near penniless and with their boots letting in, on a foreign soil, and asked to dispose of a fine-strung mustee woman whose depression and nervousness were growing steadily as the crisis approached?
Flash For Freedom
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Because of her medical and her legal bills, she is now penniless and deeply in debt.
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They came of gentry stock, and their father exhibited one of the occasional weaknesses of that origin - an incurable optimism in money matters which left him penniless.
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He was 44 and virtually penniless.
The Sun
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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
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We were completely penniless, with three young children, helpless in an unfamiliar city.
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A gentleman, in my case, would have settled the matter with the kirk-treasurer for a small sum of money; but the poor stibbler, the penniless dominie, having married his cousin of
Redgauntlet
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She had been wealthy in Iran, and possibly found a marriage of convenience to a penniless student nurse unappealing.
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It was, evidently, some poor penniless wretch trying to keep from freezing to death on the coldest day of the year.
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And a tourist in Krakow does not want to be left penniless, when there is glossy amber to be bought and intricate handcrafts to be bartered over.
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I had used all the money to get to England so I was penniless in a foreign land with only the clothes on my back and my sword to my name.
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Not least when, despite all the success, she was left virtually penniless thanks to an astronomical tax bill that wiped out the band.
The Sun
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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
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Virtually penniless, she was diagnosed with lung cancer.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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Also: panné (e) = broke (c'est une panné = he's penniless) une panne de courant/d'électricité = power failure une panne de moteur = engine failure
Savoir Vivre
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Kicked out of east-coast prep schools and facing the glum prospect of a military academy, Igby goes slumming in lower Manhattan, but there's a porous border between moneyed respectability and penniless Bohemia.
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A penniless refugee, he still wanted to carry on with the medical studies he had commenced in Prague.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a result, many of them have had to resort to shooting kangaroos in order to sell the meat, as they are almost penniless.
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We've already mentioned penniless banana growers and people who don't want a stomachful of growth hormones.
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The legal dispute left them penniless.
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Tony, a footloose and hard-living traveller, finds himself penniless and without a job out in the wilds of Kenya.
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A lot of those actors died penniless.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, I spent my first evening in Singapore contemplating my penniless state, surrounded by glamorous people, and drinking the plenteous free refills the barman provided me with.
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Almost penniless, she bequeathed a "few trifling memorials' to friends.
PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
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A number of others of the jury of penniless poets having related their stories, at last it is agreed that if the Foole of all Fooles cannot be found among those before named, one of themselves must be the fool, for there cannot be a verier fool than a poet, "for poets have good wits, but cannot use them, great store of money, but cannot keep it," etc.
The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies
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After applying for 120 jobs with no luck, he was left homeless and virtually penniless.
The Sun
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I leapt into the car and in gratitude shot off to buy a box of chocolates for my saviours then realised I was penniless and cardless.
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For the next 30 years Dadaji wandered south east Asia as a penniless sannyasi.
FAQ: Adinatha FAQ Revision 2.0a by Mike Magee
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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
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Her father's once prosperous business had fallen apart and they were left penniless due to their huge debts.
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Though… given I always end up with the cute but penniless ones… should I really have a waiter on my list of desirables?
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If she is friendless and penniless, it is through my fault.
A Little Princess
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Although he earned millions, Louis ended up nearly penniless and a walking argument against professional pugilism.
The Standard Bearer
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She and her mother were left penniless after her father died, the family having earlier lost their home to river erosion.
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But after reputedly making millions from crime he says he's now penniless.
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Now back in it, they're left penniless and sometimes homeless.
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By Winter he is penniless, far from home, and buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
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Senior partners in legal firms rubbed shoulders with penniless students and dedicated barflies.
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The penniless author successfully wooed and married Fanny.
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They were penniless and Mary knew that a stage career was her only hope of survival.
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I was penniless and facing bankruptcy and the prospect of being prosecuted in court for a whole range of civil and criminal offences.
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A penniless Fred, still in striped pants, tailcoat, and spats, hops a freight for New York, with Pop in tow.
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I shook my head and listened again to Tom, who was now holding forth on my financial precariousness—meaning my unusual penniless royal mistress, yet unmarried, state.
Exit the Actress
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It is a gala day for the other prisoners when a bunch of penniless "hoboes" are brought into jail.
A Study of Prison Conditions in North Carolina
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He continued: But the top of the ladder is a very trying place for old revolutionists who have had no administrative experience, who have had no financial experience, who have been trained as penniless hunted fugitives with Karl Marx on the brain and not as statesmen.
Daimnation!: Shaw and Stalin
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Jobless and penniless , he had to sleep rough in the fields for several months.
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his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless
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Penniless and without protection, Pamela is pursued by Mr B., Lady B.'s son, but she repulses him and remains determined to retain her chastity and her unsullied conscience.
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He appears to have come to Britain after the war, almost penniless.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could feel a deep dread building that he might be reduced to a penniless freebooter as quickly as he had risen to prominence.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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On his own, with few big-time allies and nearly penniless, Truman whistle-stopped across the country from Labor Day to election eve, castigating the Republicans as the selfish exploiters of everyday Americans.
Ed Kosner: A Little Touch of Harry
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They are destitute, penniless and possessionless with no future.
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Equally important were the question of whether the suspect was high born and wealthy, or low born and bondable, or a beggar, or -- most unfortunate of all, a mere penniless slave.
Si'Wren of the Patriarchs
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It is sustained by security forces whose middle and lower ranks are almost as penniless, starving and demoralised as the citizens they are meant to suppress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everything about him seemed to emphasize how unreachable he would prove to be for a fatherless, penniless, unworldly girl like me, but something in his eyes told me that I had affected him in a way that was not completely unfavorable.
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I can't return to work as a chef for another six weeks at least and am almost penniless.
The Sun
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Uncle Charlie was jobless and penniless.
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Jobless and penniless , he had to sleep rough in the fields for several months.
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And my ambition is to die penniless.
The Sun
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The penniless author successfully wooed and married Fanny.
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A walk through the shopping district will leave you breathless and, sometimes, penniless, but it is a worthwhile go.
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There are purse-proud penniless ones that stand at the door of the tavern and prate of their feats of winebibbing.
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I will not tolerate his presence on the radio or t.v. I sincerely hope that Becky dies penniless, alone, neglected, in unbearable agony and rotting away in his own excrement.
Think Progress » Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I see you, and I love you, brother.’ (Updated)
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One of the most famous editors of the age was Philip Freneau, an ardent Republican and once "penniless young poet," and the publisher of the National Gazette, a semiweekly newspaper.
Newspaper Wars
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Amelia would take Colonel Dobbin not as a rich, but as a poor man - thus atoning for her ‘selfishness’ over the years, and repaying his kindness when she was penniless.
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If he had thought soberly over the probable future of a beautiful and penniless girl like Eve Chardon, he would have seen that this marriage was a piece of unhoped-for good fortune.
Two Poets
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It is the same too, in London; there are plenty of penniless men who marry wealthy heiresses instead of seeking out their own living.
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She says she's highly embarrassed, but the alternative is being homeless and penniless.
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The main character, a Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie, finds herself living alone in Tokyo, almost penniless, friendless and yet a compassionate but clear-eyed observer of Japanese culture and customs.
Reading Japan
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But the relationship ended acrimoniously in 1992, and H took all the money and property, leaving her partner penniless.
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He plays Valentin, the hot-headed younger son for whom being a de Bellegarde means going penniless.
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A man meets a beautiful but penniless girl on a trip to Cuba.
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Any girl who will go East and marry a 'cit' and leave six or seven penniless subs sighing behind her,
The Deserter
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You left me for the son of an Earl who ended up being disinherited and penniless and then I'll become a marquis… heir to a very wealthy dukedom.
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But some victims left penniless after investing their entire fortunes with the fund manager cannot wait for the compensation process.
Times, Sunday Times
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She nodded at her reflection and went downstairs; the desire to impress Dr Eijsinck with the knowledge that she was no penniless dowd working powerfully within her.
Politics 101
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'I think I know more about that than you do,' replied Joel, with an air which would have done credit to a _diplomat_, 'and, I assure you, Ellen will _not_ be left penniless; and if you will insist on her going with you for a short time -- mind, I say _insist_ -- I promise before long to make certain disclosures which will satisfy you as to my assertion.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Forced from her home by the civil war, she lived almost penniless in temporary camps barely able to find enough food.
Times, Sunday Times
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To see the penniless immigrant of to-day become the capitalist of to-morrow is a training in economic ideas.
Canadian Cities of Romance
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The lieutenant, in turn, who knew all the "rules and regulations" by heart, explained that the harbor police were not ferrymen, and that the police-boats had other functions to perform than that of transporting belated and penniless sailor-men to their ships.
In Yeddo Bay