Examples of 'penury' in a sentence
Meaning of "penury"
penury - extreme poverty or destitution. It refers to a state of deprivation where basic necessities like food, shelter, and clothing are lacking
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- Extreme want; poverty; destitution.
- A lack of something; a dearth.
How to use "penury" in a sentence
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Their penury so lingering has become anger.
If we live in a state of penury it is really our fault.
Or you can remain united in relative penury.
Penury is more horrible than death.
Just so that none of you are left in penury.
She died in penury and sorrows.
The only sure thing about it was penury.
He died in penury several years ago.
Axing their pensions will reduce them to penury.
Yet his slide into penury proved irreversible.
And we would be forced into penury.
A family that was facing penury is now set for life.
A man might think it is work or penury.
And live in penury for it.
In that famine even the nobles were reduced to penury.
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You have brought yourself to penury entirely on your own.
Which conspire to keep us all in penury.
Penury but a society of abundance which was able to meet essential needs.
Many of them are living in penury now.
Yet few knew the penury the author endured before achieving fame.
Have a little taste for penury.
He lived a penury life and worked as typist at Indore.
Do they run their country to the verge of penury.
This implied that it was heading to some penury and thus to popular riots.
Really hard and bitter experienced the misery of penury.
You were trying to save yourself from the penury that is about to consume you.
He will pay and she will condemn them both to a life of penury.
The estrangement left her living in penury with her children in Libertoun.
The reality is that budgets for culture are being slashed to penury levels.
The details focus mostly on the penury of the residents of the Maison Vauquer.
The family lived in penury.
Condemning Mary to a life of penury is something I would not dream of.
Save us from utter penury.
These yogas indicate penury but are not Preshya Yogas.
Many have died in penury.
This situation of penury of liquidities has been organized by the European Central Bank.
We are in a state of political penury.
This strange penury in which we are made to pine?
Prepare for penury.
But what penury when it comes to implementing those priorities!
Even if it means penury.
The penury of our enemies is the deepest poverty of all, truly an inescapable cycle.
He died in penury.
A penury consciousness can not demonstrate a fortune ; a failure consciousness can not demonstrate success.
I am reduced to penury.
Penury is staring me in the face, Jeeves.
We will put you into years if not decades of penury in pursuit of this.
She's not used to penury of the sort that you and I are accustomed too.
However that is not enough of a reason to crash and burn into penury.
You have brought nothing but pain, penury and strife into my days.
