Sample Sentences for
pauper
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    She did not look like a pauper.  (source)
    pauper = someone who is very poor
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    On my hands and knees while scrubbing the bathroom tile, I imagined I was the prince in the story The Prince and the Pauper.  (source)
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    We see that every pauper wears the anklet of title in Umuofia.  (source)
    pauper = person who is very poor
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    And the way he moves, even the way he holds himself, is refined and graceful, deliberate and delicate, like he's lived his life as a prince and is now pretending to be the pauper.  (source)
    pauper = someone who is very poor
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    He had no intention of letting the authorities turn them into paupers.  (source)
    paupers = people who are very poor
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    "The vital nerve of the problem of pauperism," Nikolai Nikolaie-vich read from the revised manuscript.†  (source)
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    You can't let someone pauperize you!†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
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    A big windfall would not pauperise a man.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it pauperize.
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    And then Schliemann went on to outline some of the wastes of competition: the losses of industrial warfare; the ceaseless worry and friction; the vices—such as drink, for instance, the use of which had nearly doubled in twenty years, as a consequence of the intensification of the economic struggle; the idle and unproductive members of the community, the frivolous rich and the pauperized poor; the law and the whole machinery of repression; the wastes of social ostentation, the milliners and tailors, the hairdressers, dancing masters, chefs and lackeys.†  (source)
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    "But that would be pauperising them," said an earnest girl, who liked the Schlegels, but thought them a little unspiritual at times.†  (source)
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    who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly hammered leaves of finest gold, the stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!†  (source)
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    And far better that crows and ravens — if any ravens there be in these regions — should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should be prisoned in a workhouse coffin and moulder in a pauper's grave.  (source)
    pauper = someone who is very poor
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    So felons were not lodged and fed better than soldiers, (to say nothing of paupers,) and seldom set fire to their prisons with the excusable object of improving the flavor of their soup.  (source)
    paupers = people who are very poor
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