How to Use penurious in a Sentence

penurious

adjective

• The penurious school system had to lay off several teachers.
• An earnest rebuild is underway, but like all before it, the success will be in spite of penurious ownership.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
• The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo is so penurious that its annual health spending per person could not buy a copy of this newspaper.
  — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
• Three percent is probably more than most of our readers received in raises, but by federal standards it’s penurious.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
• Even critics concede that to cast blame solely on penurious corporations is to ignore a bigger picture.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2019
• The penurious nicotine levels proved frustrating and costly for South Korean vapers.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
• Ms. Wolf’s script contains passages describing the penurious daily existence of Vincent, who never sold a painting in his lifetime.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2017
• Chevron didn’t seek money damages, allowing it to avoid the case being heard by a jury (which might have favored a lone lawyer, however compromised, and his penurious clients against a major corporation).
  — Paul Barrett, Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2017
• Preller never stops maneuvering, and has taken full advantage of the passive and penurious franchises.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
• Beyond its penurious powertrain, the Prime's disinterested driving demeanor extends to its steering, which is light and numb.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2022
• The penurious Patriots pass defense has surrendered just four touchdown passes while picking off 19 passes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• Through all the muck and carnage, all the pendulum swings between penurious and privileged milieus, there is a sympathetic human protagonist whose struggle becomes our struggle.
  — Katey Rich, HWD, 26 Feb. 2017
• Yet this old, penurious India had an asset that was essential for harmony in a nation of several hundred million people with multiple religions and languages.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
• Jobs in universities, media, publishing, and think tanks offered former bohemians and penurious toilers money and social status.
  — Pankaj Mishra, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• Magical thinking, ideological gobbledegook, and penurious inhumanity.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 29 Sep. 2017

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