Examples of penniless in a Sentence
She was unemployed and penniless.
went from being a penniless girl to owner of her own restaurant
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Eugene was penniless and in debt to his sister to the tune of $2,000.
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Mar. 2025
Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary 2001 film about a performer at the famed Parisian nightclub who falls in love with a penniless composer comes to life onstage in March 2026.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
Unfortunately, not long after Sow arrived in early 2022, the school went out of business, leaving the 15-year-old homeless and penniless with nowhere to go.
—Steve Hartman, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2025
Not everyone at the table was penniless.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Mar. 2025
Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary 2001 film about a performer at the famed Parisian nightclub who falls in love with a penniless composer comes to life onstage in March 2026.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
Unfortunately, not long after Sow arrived in early 2022, the school went out of business, leaving the 15-year-old homeless and penniless with nowhere to go.
—Steve Hartman, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2025
Not everyone at the table was penniless.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Penniless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/penniless. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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penniless
adjective
pen·ni·less
ˈpen-i-ləs 
ˈpen-ᵊl-əs
: having no money : very poor
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