How to Use destitute in a Sentence

destitute

adjective

• His business failures left him destitute.
• Hundreds of thousands were left destitute and moved to the cities to start over.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• At the same time, South Asia was left destitute when the British receded.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2022
• The remaining half-billion or so are on a par with the most destitute bits of Africa.
  — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
• The son of a truck driver, Singh grew up on a farm in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, poor but not destitute.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 3 July 2018
• There are people who are destitute when the virus hit and are already broke.
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 1 June 2020
• After a lifetime spent working the streets, the women were destitute and alone, and had nowhere to go.
  — Photographs and Text By Adriana Zehbrauskas, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018
• The lucky ones simply got dismissed from their posts and were left destitute.
  — Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
• The spinning machines shut down, moved offshore, and Blackburn hit the skids in the 1970s, a poster child for destitute Britain.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
• The plan hires homeless people and teaches them how to make coats for the destitute suffering on the streets.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 21 Jan. 2020
• Even people who still have jobs have been left destitute.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• Black people, who have a little money, but not a lot, but aren't destitute on the street and who've grown up with all sorts of people.
  — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2017
• Bangladesh, already host to 1m destitute Rohingya refugees chased out of Myanmar, wants nothing to do with the whole process.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• As the day of food distribution wraps up, Rose looks out on the people who are still homeless and destitute.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, www.latimes.com, 7 June 2018
• Dog meat was once more common, and remained so in the decades after the Korean War when the country was destitute and meat was scarce.
  — John Yoon, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• As a result, she was left destitute with five children.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• From the point of view of the not-quite-destitute, food thieves don’t deserve solidarity.
  — Ann Larson, The New Republic, 5 Mar. 2021
• At that time, resources in Europe were scarce, and people were destitute.
  — A.j. Baime, WSJ, 30 July 2022
• Here was a gemstone of goodness who had ascended to the levers of power in the wealthiest country to aid the most destitute.
  — Isaac Lozano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2021
• This is a destitute Naples, and Lewis’s acute powers of observation put us right there.
  — Edward Chisholm, WSJ, 20 May 2022
• His departure left his wife and children destitute, forcing them to live off of his Navy pension for a time.
  — Leah Silverman, Town & Country, 14 Mar. 2018
• Many of the Kingdom’s performers arrive destitute and begging on the street.
  — Charlie Campbell / Kunming, Time, 1 June 2018
• The fighting, along with devastating floods and cyclones, had turned the new country into one of the most destitute spots on Earth.
  — The Economist, 27 Mar. 2021
• And the once destitute buildings around it, in central Mitte, are now among Berlin’s most valuable real estate.
  — Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• Applicants had to begin the process by quitting their jobs; those whose visas were denied were left destitute.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• Stan grew up destitute, in downtown Indianapolis in the ’40s and ’50s.
  — Brady Huggett, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2021
• But the scale of its riches is more than matched by a wildly corrupt political class that leaves most Iraqis all but destitute.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• Skid row has long been the downtown zone where Los Angeles has shunted services for its most destitute.
  — Emily Alpert Reyesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
• Most settled in Israel, at first often as destitute refugees.
  — Tom Segev, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• Terrell Jolly is among the rehabbers who use the Missouri law to acquire destitute properties.
  — Kevin Hardy, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024