How to Use pauper in a Sentence
pauper
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The call of nature must be answered even by kings and queens, and all the way down to the lowliest pauper.
—Orange County Register Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 1 June 2017
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The family was so poor she was buried in a pauper’s grave.
—Claudine Doury, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
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Or live like an abject pauper and park in the driveway.
—Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2022
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Later, these caves housed the bones of plague victims and paupers.
—Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2019
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The cricketing hero was laid to rest in the pauper's section.
—Ben Westcott, CNN, 4 Apr. 2021
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Home to princes and paupers, the Eternal City is used to catering to all budgets.
—Lee Marshall, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2018
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Mexican law made princes of many who might have been paupers in the United States.
—H.w. Brands, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019
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Tenor Scott Brunscheen is the prince in pauper's clothing that the queen and every woman in her court desires.
—Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader, 5 June 2018
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No one was charged with Randolph’s murder and his body was buried in an unmarked grave in the pauper’s cemetery of the local almshouse.
—Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
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Police still couldn't identify the woman from the pauper's grave, but the DNA tests ruled Brenda out.
—Tamara Lush, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Oct. 2017
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If the ashes are not picked up, the county buries them together in a single pauper’s grave.
—Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
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In Colonial times lobster meat was fed to pigs and goats and eaten only by paupers.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2019
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After Dexter Wade's remains were exhumed, his gravesite in the pauper's field was smoothed over.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
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Our whole idea is that God is coming among us, that God has taken up residence not as a prince, but as a pauper.
—Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
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Then, on July 14, inmates at the county penal farm had buried his remains in a pauper’s field.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
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In Renaissance Europe towns such as Ypres collected alms to pay for ways of putting paupers to work.
—The Economist, 12 July 2018
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Money buys talent – both coaches and players – and Auburn is no pauper.
—Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2022
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The number of paupers in sub-Saharan Africa is holding steady at roughly 415m.
—The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
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According to the newspaper, the allowance made for burying paupers was less than $3 each.
—Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 3 Mar. 2020
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Miles, the eldest, is a top lawyer and yuppie who becomes a drug addict and pauper, then turns his life around and becomes a state senator.
—Mark Greif, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2022
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Within a year, Rembrandt was dead, a pauper assigned an anonymous grave.
—Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
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Barcelona, a billion dollars in debt, must build a squad to meet its princely ambitions on a pauper’s budget.
—New York Times, 27 May 2021
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But science has found that eating breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper might be the key to living longer, healthier lives.
—Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 15 Feb. 2023
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Your Royal Highness rolling papers (£2 per pack): Puff, puff, pass, pauper!
—Emily Flake, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2020
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Despite his business failure, the Russian was no pauper.
—Max Colchester and Margot Patrick, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2018
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Brzyski was buried in a pauper's grave in Arlington in October.
—CBS News, 6 Feb. 2018
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Pick your favorite fast food restaurant and order everything on it for a princely feast on a pauper's paycheck.
—Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2023
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Ridgewood Cemetery was designated as a pauper’s cemetery by the city of Tampa in the early 1940s.
—Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
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On the floor of the waiting room were hundreds more desperate, emaciated paupers.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
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Without them, a plutocrat had no better chance than a pauper of getting scarce foodstuffs or consumer goods.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
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