12 example sentences using penniless.
Penniless used in a sentence
Penniless in a sentence as an adjective
At 33, I was single, penniless and back living with my parents.
Inflation hurts the wealthy much more than the penniless or indebted.
If Soros's bet had gone against him, he would have lost all of his investors' money and been left penniless.
He died, penniless, of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down.
Architect responds "I can't, but if you don't have money you could try building it yourself".There's no easy answer for the penniless idea guy.
Something like "How penniless startup founders tanked my coffee shop turnover".
The presumption, more likely, is that any price a debt collector is willing to pay for a debt is more than what a penniless debtor is able to.
The ones that don't get signed to major labels either take nine-to-five jobs and stop playing, or are so in love with their music that they don't mind being penniless hipsters.
""During the final decade of his life, Tesla was essentially penniless and living in a New York hotel, consumed by what we think today was probably obsessive compulsive disorder.
The law is not the same for the wealthy and well-connected and the poorPrecedent-setting may not be for the lone wolf without a nickel to his name, but it's rare in any ecosystem that the penniless loner can turn around as monstrous a ship as the US legal system.
With the social pressure from their friends to consume our product mounting, the selfish, penniless teenagers will be forced to either get part-time jobs, or coerce their parents into buying the [product] for them, because the primary option is temporarily unavailable.> So, let's add DRM to our product.
It will stop the pirates [for just long enough for us to turn a profit, which we can then use to do things that] our customers will love [us for].Of course, this block of selfish-but-penniless-fad-following-teenagers just define the power-law "fat head" of most media companies' profitability, not the entirety of the curve.
Penniless definitions
not having enough money to pay for necessities
See also: impecunious penurious pinched