How To Use Stone-broke In A Sentence
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Harry is stone-broke one moment, but darts away and will return with money which will provide for an astonishing trip to London.
Melville in Love
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It is surprising, the money that is made out of stone-broke tramps.
Some Adventures With the Police
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And you will always be hearing racing 'shop,' and how much somebody won, nobody ever talks about their losses until they are stone-broke.
Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate
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We even fell afoul of highwaymen on the return leg, gentlemen so inept they didn't know what to do when they found out that everyone aboard the coach was stone-broke.
Petty Pewter Gods
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When he is here, he prefers to dismiss his retinue and dress himself—he is much quicker than one would expect for a prince, but then he was for a long time a stone-broke prince in exile.
Exit the Actress
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But you," said Forrest to the earl, "what would you do if you were stone-broke?
The Spread Eagle and Other Stories
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I wish it would, because I'm stone-broke and haven't any more cartridges.
Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden
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'They're as proud as a turkey when they hold the ready cash, You ought to' ear the way they laugh an 'joke; They are tricky an' they're funny when they've got the ready money, -- Ow! but see 'em when they're all stone-broke. '
The Light That Failed