How to Use penniless in a Sentence

penniless

adjective

• She was unemployed and penniless.
• The reward should go to the penniless migrants in Calais.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 13 May 2018
• Blind and penniless, Johnson played and preached on the streets to earn a living.
  — Dr. Sandro Galea, Time, 22 June 2017
• For those who have made it to the U.S., some are exhausted and penniless.
  — CBS News, 14 May 2023
• By the fall of 2015, Landis was left penniless and moved to Oregon, where Wood now lives.
  — Andy Nguyen, La Cañada Valley Sun, 2 Nov. 2017
• Joplin died penniless, and he was buried with a man and a teenage girl in a plot that went unmarked until 1974.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 24 May 2018
• The family was close to penniless, and Doris was left to raise her four children alone.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• About half were able to leave, turned overnight into penniless refugees.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• She was stranded at Union Station, penniless and homeless for the first time in her life.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2021
• After all, Van Gogh had died penniless, unable to sell much of his art.
  — Paulina Porzikova, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Nov. 2022
• The big chunks of the easy-to-find gold that had been lolling around in rivers for millenniums were gone after the first years of the gold rush, and Marshall died penniless.
  — Thomas Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• Caceres was let off the plane, penniless, in San Pedro Sula — the city where his ex-wife was murdered, the place that had sparked the journey.
  — Jim Wyss and Brenda Medina, miamiherald, 5 July 2018
• These penniless boys and men who make it up the ladder of American commerce do so through pluck and hard work.
  — Alissa Quart, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023
• As a result, Tesla died in 1943, mostly alone and penniless in New York.
  — Scott Thill, WIRED, 9 July 2010
• At the meager end of the Live.ly economy, penniless teenagers toil to scrape together enough to buy the cheapest gifts.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 6 June 2017
• The big chunks of the easy-to-find gold that had been lolling around in rivers for millenniums were gone after the first years of the Gold Rush, and Marshall himself died penniless.
  — Thomas Fuller Jim Wilson, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• Christian, a penniless composer from Ohio, falls for Satine, the sultry star of the Moulin Rouge.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland, 3 Mar. 2020
• The father is a gambling addict in poor health; the brother is penniless yet sure of his talent as a medium.
  — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 15 Mar. 2022
• Deo, as he is known, found a way out of the country and to New York City, arriving nearly penniless and knowing no one nor a word of English.
  — Ben Cramer, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2017
• In 1992, a friend gave Susan, now penniless, use of a condo on Sunset Boulevard.
  — Lisa Depaulo, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
• The Hiltons were the toast of vaudeville, at one point making thousands of dollars a week, but at 23 sued the Myerses, saying they were kept penniless.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 1 June 2018
• My friends were penniless bohemians, so the gift was welcome.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• The amounts can leave migrants penniless, many of whom are migrating in the first place due to extreme poverty in their countries of origin.
  — Matt Rivers, Luis Chaparro and Natalie Gallón, CNN, 4 May 2021
• As the movie unfolds, a penniless matchstick girl comes to Enola with a job, asking for her help in finding the girl’s missing sister.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 5 Nov. 2022
• No country would take in these stateless, penniless Jews.
  — Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, 8 Jan. 2020
• With the custody of her children up in the air, a homeless and penniless Garland saw London as a shot at artistic redemption.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2019
• She wanders, penniless and desolate, unable to rent a room or hold a job or depend upon the kindness of strangers.
  — Ellen Morton, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
• Carvalho arrived alone and almost penniless to the U.S. at age 17.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• Robben and Diarra leaving didn't age well, neither did the purchase and penniless release of Veron.
  — SI.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• But the controversy rendered Du Bois persona non grata—and penniless.
  — Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024