Sample Sentences forindigent (editor-reviewed)
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We serve meals and provide shelter for the indigent.indigent = poor people who lack basic necessities like food and shelter
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The indigent sick of this city and its environs, without regard to sex, age, or color, who require surgical or medical treatment ... shall be received into the hospital without charge. (source)
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to see what the fat lazy doctor would do about an indigent baby with a scorpion bite. (source)indigent = so poor as to lack basic necessities
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Well, I'm also not going to appoint you because I don't think he's indigent.† (source)
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To salve his loneliness in the years after the accident, he started unofficially "adopting" indigent Okinawan boys and girls, eventually taking fourteen of them under his wing, paying for the oldest to attend medical school in Philadelphia and another to study medicine in Japan.† (source)
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"You're very trusting," I said, guessing male, "to let such an indigent"—I knew Seivarden was male, that one was easy—"run up such a debt."† (source)
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They tend to adopt personas invisible to society: the gray-suited man on the train; the indigent begging for spare coins; just faces in the crowd.† (source)
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They were a society of indigents subsisting without heat, lights or water.† (source)
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An indigent looking wood receives us.† (source)
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I finally told him I was one of the Indigents.† (source)
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Times had changed, money was scarce, but nothing had altered the rule of Southern life that families always made room gladly for indigent or unmarried female relatives.† (source)
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Bernice existed on Social Security disability benefits, food stamps, and the prescription drugs provided to her by TennCare, the state's noble but misguided effort at providing health care to indigents.† (source)
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Rochester might probably win that noble lady's love, if he chose to strive for it; is it likely he would waste a serious thought on this indigent and insignificant plebeian?'† (source)
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Had he been born into a lowly family, Moody might have spent his life like Tehran's uncounted indigents, existing in a tiny makeshift hut constructed of scavenged building materials, reduced to begging for odd jobs and handouts.† (source)
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The first could be an indigent looking for a few dollars and know nothing.† (source)
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was a merely systematic evil in which the participating doctors had no part, I set down in cold print, with facts and figures, the inhuman collusion of doctors and hospital administrations—the kind of collusion which results in thousands of deaths per week throughout this country: Negroes left to die in hospital waitingrooms, indigents not admitted or inadequately treated, outpatient cases not followed up because of bills unpaid at discharge.† (source)
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