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Penniless
"Penniless" in a Sentence (15 examples)
For one thing, I'm penniless; for another, I don't have the time.
The failure in business left me penniless.
His failure in business left him penniless.
The problem is that he is penniless.
She's not penniless.
Sooner or later, bankruptcy hangs over our heads and we will all die penniless like beggars.
You're not penniless.
When his business failed, he was left penniless.
I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
Tom isn't penniless.
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In societies without national insurance of any kind, almshouses are the last refuge of penniless people.
In a functioning digital economy, being cashless is far different from being penniless, because cash is merely one form of money; but some preppers hoard gold in case the system gets destroyed and cashlessness suddenly becomes pennilessness.
A dollar and a quarter seems a small sum, but if you are absolutely penniless it might as well be a thousand.
This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
Canada became a penniless country in 2013 simply by rounding its cash transactions to the nearest nickel but otherwise not changing anything.
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