penury

How To Use penury In A Sentence

• It follows that you don't have to reduce yourself to utter penury.
• Having been reduced to penury, struggling to survive, they no longer serve as an effective political opposition.
• To say that evangelical Christians believe that non-evangelicals deserve to suffer and die is like saying that people who sell life and disability insurance believe that those who don’t follow their advice to buy insurance *deserve* to suffer and live in penury and/or have their families suffer and live in penury if they die or become disabled. The Volokh Conspiracy » HRW’s Whitson Defends Fundraising in Totalitarian Countries:
• I will reduce myself to penury to save you from the evils of gambling, even if it means winning millions of pounds.
• Even in the middle of penury, dreams remain colourful.
• Well, any reader wishing to help Jason escape the cold streets of penury and warm himself by the fire of solvency should begin rummaging for shrapnel in their pockets now.
• In a globalized economy, it imposes penury on trading partners, especially the poorest countries.
• Now, as then, a government is reducing its citizens to penury as they are deprived of their income and homes.
• The judge replied that most asylum-seekers who were threatened with penury couldn't get near the few underpaid lawyers who were prepared to give them a hearing.
• Stamp's father was a stoker on the Thames boats and the family lived in the East End in near penury.