Destitution Synonyms

Destitution Sentence Examples

• Despite this destitution, the soldiers and officers went on living just as usual.

• Despite a huge emigration of Jews from Russia, the congestion within the pale is the cause of terrible destitution and misery.

• He was imposed upon by speculators in whom he placed confidence, and was reduced to destitution by the failure of a scheme in which they engaged him.

• Believing implicitly in the rumours of a descent on Boulogne and of risings in France which also reached him, and knowing the destitution he had left behind him in his movement to Ulm, when he heard of the westward march of French columns from the Lech he told his army, apparently in all good faith, that the French were in full march for their own coun try.

• He died on 7 March 1935, in utter destitution, alone, without even a priest to assist him in his last moments.