Use of penury in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include penury at the start of sentence, penury at the end of sentence and penury in the middle of sentence

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penury at the end of sentence


  1. He died in penury.
  2. How can we quit penury?
  3. The family lived in penury.
  4. They were reduced to penury.
  5. Laid - off workers fall into penury.
  6. He was cradled in the lap of penury.
  7. He who sows misery, reaps but penury!
  8. Peoples in Africa are living in penury.
  9. It transforms a state of wealth into a state of penury.
  10. A succession of bad harvest had reduced the small farmer to penury.
  11. A succession of bad harvests had reduced the small farmers to penury.
  12. First of all, raising the price only can limited many persons living in penury.
  13. In all labour there is profit : but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
  14. If any doctor had depended on us for his living, then he would have died in penury.
  15. While the rich could flaunt their wealth the numerous urban poor lived in a state of penury.
  16. As long as they had their beloved stock market, they seemed not to mind their relative penury.

penury in the middle of sentence


  1. The show went into penury, I think.
  2. He died in penury in 1644..com/penury.html
  3. He was brought up in penury, without education.
  4. Hardship and penury wore him out before his time.
  5. Then, to add insult to penury, the bond market exploded.
  6. Give me the strength to strike at the root of penury in my heart.
  7. But penury, though exasperating enough, was not the whole of his distress.
  8. Mr Thomas was born in penury and grew up with bare feet and intestinal worms.
  9. This is my prayer to thee, my lord---strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart.
  10. He was talking about the embarrassment penury - and advocating higher salaries for MPs.
  11. Because of his claimed penury, Mr Hamilton has abandoned plans to contest the libel verdict.
  12. From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into penury by conceding 18 unanswered points.
  13. However, in latter-day China, poverty of the country and penury of its people, and lack of communal awareness of the society became the key restrictive factors of the donative effects.

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