Penurious used in a sentence

Penurious in a sentence as an adjective

Most ***** are very cheap, and the penurious get "BPL cards".

He commissioned a clever but penurious student named John Smith to see if he could crack the code and transcribe the diaries.

Moreover, none of these services would exist if it weren't for the artists and labels capitulating and licensing their products for penurious rates.

I read "mean" in the older sense of "low, sordid, base, penurious" rather than the modern sense of "not nice" - because I agree that when you use the modern sense of the word it comes across as schoolyard whining.