Sample Sentences for
destitute
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    Returning to Kabul was like running into an old, forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn't been good to him, that he'd become homeless and destitute.  (source)
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    ...it was created for the sole purpose of isolating black Africans in small, destitute enclaves where laws were instituted to control the residents and police entered to harass, not to protect.  (source)
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    "You ought not to send your things to me, Mother. We have plenty to eat out there. You can make much better use of them here." How destitute she lies there in her bed,  (source)
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    Hatsuyo Nakamura, weak and destitute, began a courageous struggle, which would last for many years, to keep her children and herself alive.  (source)
    destitute = extremely poor; or lacking the necessities of life such as food and shelter
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    Near the turn of the century, the destitute of Europe sprang on the city with tenacious claws and an honest and solid dream.  (source)
    destitute of = extremely poor
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    Now he had tuberculosis and was living in destitution in the ghetto in Otwock.  (source)
    destitution = extreme poverty
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the populace wages battle VOLUME V. JEAN VALJEAN against, the people.†  (source)
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    To this neighbourhood, then, I came, quite destitute.  (source)
    destitute = extremely poor
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    I wish to soothe him, yet can I counsel one so infinitely miserable, so destitute of every hope of consolation, to live?†  (source)
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    My life had been one life before he had taken me up; this he had wrenched off course into a thing of wonder and then loneliness and destitution.†  (source)
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    "At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time."  (source)
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    However, Mr. Heathcliff has claimed and kept them in his wife's right and his also: I suppose legally; at any rate, Catherine, destitute of cash and friends, cannot disturb his possession.†  (source)
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    A public pregnancy without marriage meant disgrace and destitution.†  (source)
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