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Sentence Examples The English aristocracy of the 19th century cared little for the poor and destitute. As you read this article, 15,000 destitute dads are spending time behind bars. The destitute found the fare either by selling their remaining assets or by assistance from ratepayers and landlords. They prodded authorities to raze the hundreds of alley shantytowns housing the city's poor and destitute. The destitute depended on begging, soup kitchens run by monks and nuns, and alms distributed by guilds, confraternities, and urban hospitals. They become destitute and homeless, relying on charity for shelter and food. She is destitute, begs and is near death almost for three days, until she comes upon a house, whose members take her in and care for her. The Southern ruling class seceded from the US in early 1861 to defend a social system built on the backs of destitute slaves. Not 25 yards behind me are nearly destitute people preparing to bed down for the night under flimsy pieces of cloth attached to poles. Even when we have relinquished this infantine period, we are seldom left destitute of religious instruction. In recognition of this, he refuses an aspiring and destitute Bihari poet money, but pays for his meals. In 1875 destitute bands of Flatheads and Pend d' Oreilles were pressing into Blackfeet territory. He forced through pensions, sick pay and national assistance for the destitute against the strongly armed self-interests of the rich. This makes them an extremely unattractive economic proposition for even the most destitute ragpicker. But these young people are choosing to live in the world's most destitute urban slums, among the poorest of the poor. In-between each of these districts are the slums, where the poor and destitute mope, hating their lives. She also once worked as a nanny in Sydney, but was left destitute when three female flatmates walked out leaving her with bills to pay. But it needn't simply be a case of helping the destitute Afghans swap one set of repressive masters for another. By the time he was a young teenager, he and his brother were orphaned, alone and destitute. Even the hermit was expected to supply the needs of the sick and the destitute through the money he earned from his own handicraft. Show More Sentences Inward-looking and mostly destitute, they rely on money sent charitably from the community. Unless they can find friends or charitable bodies or persons, they will indeed be destitute. A century before Carleton's time the Charter schools were established, and endowed to educate the children of the destitute poor. Set in a village, the tale describes how a destitute fiddler dies after entrusting his sick child and fiddle to the care of an old woman. Four hundred other destitute families crowd a relief camp in a school a few kilometres up the road. The Galilean, sir, was a paladin for the destitute, the downtrodden, the impecunious hoi polloi. Millions of mosquitoes swarmed over a food depot used by aid agencies to feed tens of thousands of people left destitute by floods. Most people did not quality for a medical card unless they were destitute, unemployed or had a serious illness. Ethan did not want anyone in Starkfield to think that he was poor and destitute again. Many of us who were forced out of the country are now scattered all over the world as impoverished and financially destitute refugees. While we had been a wealthy nation before colonisation, we were left destitute and poor by the end of it. People living at or below this income level are not simply poor, but destitute. Old age homes are necessary, but essentially for the destitute and the poor. Society to this day stigmatises blacks as being poor and destitute, as well as criminals. That money could be spent on the poor and destitute without expecting any reward for it from God. It quickly spread to neighbouring shacks, leaving their already poor occupants destitute. Only the destitute are provided with any support, and then at the lowest level. How does Dr. Singh give 400 million of the poor and the destitute a stake in Indian democracy? Our government is faced with many challenges and promises to deliver and serve the poor and destitute. Karim has been rendering selfless service to the destitute patients at the MCH for the last five years. Show More Sentences Some only lost fathers but were put in orphanages by destitute mothers who had no means to support them after the Gulf War. Three days a week, workers visit the areas around the church with breakfasts and lunches for the destitute. He made grisailles of the destitute and maimed which have a moralizing character. Zakoura shifted its focus to targeting the destitute with loans of 1000 diram. We were not down and out or destitute, which is the picture some people have tried to paint. He lived the high life as a London yuppie but threw it all away to work with the poor and destitute in the slums of Liverpool. Kamehameha died in 1819, and was succeeded by his son, Lilohilo, or Kamehameha II., a mild and well disposed prince, but destitute of his father's energy. These, Denny, are empty and vapid slogans because those who use them are destitute of any imagination or feeling of what such greed, racism or imperialism is like. Set in 2,500 square metres of land, the newly-built house, to be called Genesis, will become the refuge, and salvation, of ten destitute street urchins. Jobless and destitute of funds, McClean enlists with the Black Knight Legion, a band of villainous mercenaries driven by the acquisition of financial gain. From the American Dust Bowl, thousands of destitute farm families stream westward. Six months later, she was in love, pregnant, and, as her furious parents cut her off, destitute. Nation building in a country as destitute and decentralized as Afghanistan, he argued, was hopeless. When everyone is struggling, how much is to be offered to the more destitute, and how much is to be accepted? The film features destitute people being attacked while they sleep and others being given small sums of money to run headlong into walls and street signs. Beside me in the line were ragged mothers with their children in their arms, and at their feet, old infirm men, and young men who are in destitute circumstances. He introduced her to Jamil Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi businessman working on behalf of orphans and destitute young girls in the country's interior villages. They did not attempt to confront mobs as they set aflame people and properties, they set up no camps to shelter the bereaved and destitute survivors. Harpt has now set up a school for orphans and destitute children. In both cases, the period that Ms. Jordan believed to be largely destitute of significance today makes up the bulk of the African American literary tradition. Show More Sentences How parliaments make swine and vermin of men, who are destitute of morals and devoid of human attributes, is no more in the realm of magic, neither in that of magic realism. Finally, egged on by an evil spirit, a destitute J.R. resolves to commit suicide, and gun to his head, pulls the trigger. These animals are of huge importance in the lives of destitute people. Can you do something to increase the grant for the destitute children? They are all destitute, since the corporation has already sucked them dry. Another task was to arouse awareness throughout society, especially the well-to-do and the intellectuals, of the direness of the plight of the poor and the destitute. The social package forms a critical part of the council's indigent policy, which enables destitute households to apply for exemption from paying rates. They are destitute, penniless and possessionless with no future. Another institution of the municipality was the langarkhana, where money and grain doles were issued to the destitute once a week and clothes once a year. Even in its gaunt incompleteness, destitute of the wealth of colour which is meant to adorn it, the interior of Bentley's spacious building is immensely impressive. They distribute food, clothing, provisions and other essential items for orphanages and destitute homes and uniform, books and notebooks for poor children. Nearly destitute of food, clothing, and ammunition, with enlistments expiring and men abandoning what looked like a lost cause, the Continental army was about to fade away. China is clearly frustrated with its destitute, bellicose neighbor. On 22 August, she landed provisions for destitute earthquake victims in Peru. He is internationally known for the concept of micro credit which allows poor and destitute people with little or no collateral to borrow money. With Ottoman protection and a host of destitute immigrants, the coastline soon became reputed for piracy. Until 1834 provision for the poor and destitute in West Sussex was made at parish level. Williams is patron of the Canterbury Open Centre run by Catching Lives, a local charity supporting the destitute. The poorest of the poor are truly destitute, with so few assets they are basically shackless. Neither in the degrees of kindred they were destitute of significative words. Show More Sentences This is true even if the stepchild's other biological parent is dead, or destitute, or missing. And by 1918 much of Central and Eastern Europe was starving and destitute. There are 38 social welfare institutions, 14 destitute homes and ten hospitals. After six weeks, homesick and destitute, the three young people returned to England. The boys were promptly sent to Norwood Schools, another institution for destitute children. In these areas, millions of unemployed and their families were left destitute, and queueing at soup kitchens became a way of life. By December, a third of a million destitute people were employed in public works. Hey, a whole industry gets mobilized to raise millions for the destitute and all they get is some kind of grudging acknowledgement buried in a bunch of whinging. Some of these children were living with their families in these desperate conditions, but there were also numerous homeless, destitute children living on the streets. And, yes, some of them are governed by corrupt bullies or megalomaniacs who would rather blow money on space rockets than feeding their own destitute people. It seeks to bring salvation to the poor, destitute and hungry. By the end of the century only about 20 per cent admitted to workhouses were unemployed or destitute, but about 30 per cent of the population over 70 were in workhouses. In effect, millions of workers who had been too poorly paid to make contributions, or who had been unemployed long term, were left destitute by the scheme. Destitute area residents live in homes constructed of mud, sticks and stones and the villages are only accessible by mountain dirt roads and foot paths. For additional staff, they employed boys from the Industrial Home for Destitute Boys in Euston, central London, many of whom were trained as apprentices. Examples from Classical Literature It is often seen in pictures and portraits.403 It is inelegant and destitute of meaning. The ursine baboon is not naturally pugnacious, but neither is he timid or destitute of the means of defence. It is the mission of the Sunday-school to gather in these destitute ones, from the street, and from their Christless homes. The arable lands of Hango are nearly destitute of trees, a few willows being the only arboreous vegetation. Plumage generally compact, the feathers with thick spongy shaft, and destitute of plumule. Kirschleger mentions a variety of lonicera Caprifolium, which was not only destitute of petals but of stamens also. It is a parasite or saprophyte, and entirely destitute of chlorophyll, being pure white throughout. He found the district to the north to be a dreary waste, destitute of food and water. The dread of want in a country destitute of natural resource is ever peculiarly terrible. But it must not be supposed that the life of picklock Holes was entirely destitute of the domestic joys. Ah, that via dolorosa of the destitute, that chemin de la croix of the homeless. They are without respiration or motion, but still not destitute of vitality. Remember the interpositions of God to supply the necessities of the destitute. He could not believe all of them the offsprings of this destitute pair, and he voiced his idea as he knelt by the pallet. An oxid is a combination of oxygen with a metal or base destitute of an acid. The newcomers were all destitute, the refugees of the geopolitics of hate from both the Eastern block and from the Arab countries. She tripped up some wide stone stairs, destitute of carpets, and then down a corridor, slippery with parquetry work. As the district of the former is destitute of driftwood and potstone they are compelled to buy both articles from their neighbors. Stackhousia juncea, according to Clarke, has mixed with its perfect flowers a number of apetalous blossoms destitute of anthers. Several genera or species belonging to polypetalous Orders are destitute of petals, or have them more or less united. Show More Sentences The Empire brought in squat and squabby shapes, comfortable enough no doubt, but entirely destitute of inspiration. It would therefore be destitute of a precise meaning, and inoperative from its uncertainty. Do you think me destitute of every honest, every natural feeling? He was forced to start for Bambara alone, and destitute of resources. It was my happiness to be destitute of this afflicting passion, with which I had the greatest reason to be affected. It tells how they was stoned and sawn asunder, and wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, and was destitute, afflicted, tormented. A dog is singularly destitute in what is called in Scotland, canniness. His eyes travelled over her hands and neck, destitute of ornaments. Being destitute of weapons, they let themselves down by the running rigging, in hopes of getting between decks. As he was destitute of any other means of defense, his safety now depended entirely on bodily strength and resolution. Head, gular sac, and a small part of neck, destitute of feathers. The Sebright bantam is destitute of hackles and sickle tail-feathers. They were lamentably destitute of arms and munitions of war. The man who had addressed Haley, and who seemed not destitute of compassion, bought her for a trifle, and the spectators began to disperse. But it was destitute of mariners, itself seeming to live and move. This fog seemed even destitute of humidity, and the articles brought in contact with it were scarcely dampened in the slightest degree. However, you will think me objectionably destitute of temperament. Such districts are absolutely destitute of interest for the zoologist. Very likely preglacial man was similarly destitute of this art. The prothallus is a small underground body destitute of chlorophyll. Show More Sentences It was uninhabited, and destitute of every species of quadruped. Gosse found the country generally poor and destitute of water. The valleys were destitute of herbage, and scantily clothed with a stunted species of wormwood, generally known among traders and trappers by the name of sage. It has already been stated that the upper half of the island was a naked rock, and destitute of any other defenses than a few scattered logs of driftwood. I obeyed the influence, and discovered it to proceed from the mercy of God to three young children who were destitute of all succour, and at the point of death. He gave thanks for our food and comfort, and prayed for the poor and destitute in great cities, where the struggle for life was harder than it was here with us. Destitute themselves of the fluidic force, they seem, besides, to hinder its circulation and transmission. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of destitute? Words that rhyme with destitute What is the past tense of destitute? What is the adverb for destitute? What is the adjective for destitute? What is the noun for destitute? Translations for destitute Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words destiny's Destiny destiny destinies destines destined destitutes destitution destock destocking destress destressed 9-letter Words Starting With d de des dest desti destit destitu destitut