How to Use destitution in a Sentence

destitution

noun

• But the war had also left Poland, and much of Europe, in a state of famine and destitution.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 2 July 2017
• Wood placed the blame for his mother’s destitution on the two men, the man at the legal aid group and the lawyer, for swindling her.
  — Andy Nguyen, La Cañada Valley Sun, 2 Nov. 2017
• On the verge of exhaustion and destitution, Yang is at a loss about what to do.
  — Michael Holtz, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2017
• But Maria swept away their ocean-side home, and banished them to a new level of destitution.
  — Caitlin Dickerson and Luis FerrÉ-SadurnÍ, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• Jeanne and Julien’s son, Paul, grows into a ne’er-do-well whose debts reduce Jeanne to destitution.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 May 2017
• Here, the poor are represented by Leonard Bast, a young clerk who lives on the edge of destitution but longs deeply to be learned and artistic.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 15 Apr. 2018
• Some here now see a very fine line between destitution and bouncing back on their feet.
  — Dartunorro Clark, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2017
• Many of those factories are in low-wage countries around Asia where workers may live on the brink of destitution.
  — Marc Bain, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2020
• The country has addressed much of the abject destitution that vast numbers of Indians lived in 25 years ago.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2019
• Each resident has one to tell, of lives always teetering on the edge of destitution.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2019
• Ordinary folk in the novel scrape about to avoid destitution.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• The upper classes, meanwhile, were shocked by the destitution.
  — Marlo Safi, National Review, 29 June 2019
• No matter the utter destitution of their subjects, politicians and those close to politicians will always eat, and eat well.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• Travelers are not coming out with new tales of destitution, and there is no surge of economic refugees.
  — John Delury, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
• Many people have heard about the violence, the lawlessness and the destitution that provoke these people to enter the United States.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
• Yeah, the goal being, let’s alleviate the worst forms of destitution in low-income countries.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 16 July 2018
• Like Alex the maid, Coco Chanel spent her youth struggling to survive utter destitution and miserable low-wage jobs.
  — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• Surely not in Ohio, where 40 percent of the population - the working poor - are one paycheck away from destitution.
  — John Benson, cleveland.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• However, the last two years have clearly pushed a lot more people into harsh destitution.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2022
• The delineation of tasks that keeps one couple safe from destitution and filth would feel horribly rigid to another.
  — Heather Havrilesky, New York Times, 16 May 2017
• The Lebanese people have been the subject of dire predictions of malnourished destitution.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2023
• Zombek, a fluent Spanish speaker, grew up in Bridgeport, Conn., a diverse city with large pockets of destitution.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 Aug. 2017
• The loss plunged Fatima, her five siblings, and her mother – now a single housewife – into grief and destitution.
  — Innocent Eteng, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2022
• Whatever the bottomless wealth of the Saudi or Emirati royals, there’s the destitution of Yemen and the enduring misery of Syria’s refugees.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• This is to say, you can be born poor, working class or middle class, and get rich making music, maybe even music about your destitution or material lack.
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Emancipation freed slaves only from bondage, not from destitution; the Clotilda survivors had no way of paying for their passage home.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
• Even in Mulvaney's old district, there are pockets of extreme destitution.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 29 July 2019
• Robb points out that most scholars did not have lifelong economic stability and so were at risk of destitution if disease or old age forced them to stop working.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
• Of safety, as destitution fuels a crime wave even as terrorist attacks — though reduced — continue to kill and maim.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• Few are designed to help households manage the private misfortunes—such as illness or the death of a family member—that can tip them into destitution.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024