Destitute in a sentence

A victim who spoke to Sky News on the condition of anonymity on the narrow corridor of a food bank, said she is currently destitute in the UK despite being promised a job in Britain.

Deemed a wayward child, McGovern had fallen in with young thieves, possibly being destitute and homeless, and was found in May 1880 in George Street market with other boys.

Eskom has admitted that they had closed the station prematurely, without proper planning, which had left people destitute.

In 2008, he founded the Mojaz Foundation, an organisation working for the underprivileged and destitute.

Lunden, the mother’s daughter, accused Hunter of concealing his income, and pretending to be a “destitute artist”.

The Cities Forward Program board consists of a number of mayors, but one in particular is worth mentioning; Kelly Takaya King, Former Council Member, As in the now destitute Maui central.

The wellbeing services are a response to a rise in burnout and stress among frontline food bank workers as they deal with expanding workloads and the emotional burden of supporting increasing numbers of destitute and emotionally traumatised clients.

Unfairly compelled to leave their family home and left almost destitute by their brother and his spiteful wife, the Dashwood sisters and their mother must make a new beginning.

A destitute widow, Sarah Hlongwane, living in a one-room makeshift brick structure at Maponyane informal settlement, near Marlboro Gardens, this week spoke of how she took care of her family of 12 children – solely relying on the child support grant.

He has me gripped with this one, describing how the dashing multi-millionaire protagonist was wooed by his wife – ‘the woman did the corralling, unusually, not the other way round,’ he says – then promptly lost his fortune, leaving them destitute.

Her father was destitute and, perhaps due to his lack of information and knowledge, was unable to maximize the potential of his farm or effectively sell its products.

Homelessness charities and campaigners have long called for the act - which was initially brought in to clear the streets of destitute soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars - to be scrapped.

Major cities across the nation, including New York City and Chicago, for example, continue to struggle with the seemingly endless streams of destitute, largely uneducated and unskilled migrants flooding into major metropolitan areas.

The peak of emigrants fleeing the Emerald Isle came from the Great Famine of 1845-52 - where the failure of the potato crop left families destitute and starving.

A range of organisations including Public Interest Law CentreMigrants Rights Network say destitute migrants continue to sleep on the streets, either because councils have turned them away or because they do not know how to go about getting support.

As a result, despite being blessed with many natural resources and endowments, our people are becoming poorer and even more destitute," the ANC political leader laments.

Evans said destitute homeowners often have trouble finding affordable legal help, and even if they do, they’re up against teams of corporate hired legal guns who work for some of the nation’s biggest financial institutions.

Families have been left destitute, kids have been unable to learn properly — some for almost one year — while businesses have withered away.

Headlines regarding Syrian refugees fleeing from war-torn Syria have largely focused on their destitute financial situation, what diseases they’ve encountered during their long journey to Europe and their impact on the continent’s economy.

Instead, they are going to be a laughing stock in the community as loafers receiving a grant even though they are not old, handicapped and destitute.