INDIGENT in a Sentence
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11 example sentences for INDIGENT, such as:
1. It is indigence which produces these melancholy human plants.
2. explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire.
3. haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance.
4. Someone who is truly indigent can't even afford to buy a pack of cigarettes.
5. She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed herself to indigence.
2. explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire.
3. haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance.
4. Someone who is truly indigent can't even afford to buy a pack of cigarettes.
5. She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed herself to indigence.
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Meanings and Examples of INDIGENT
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indigent
a. poor; experiencing want or need; impoverished
Classic Sentence:
1 Times had changed, money was scarce, but nothing had altered the rule of Southern life that families always made room gladly for indigent or unmarried female relatives.
2 She had not spirits to notice her in more than a few repulsive looks, but she felt her as a spy, and an intruder, and an indigent niece, and everything most odious.
3 As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he established there a free dispensary.
4 She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed herself to indigence.
5 Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
6 One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden.
7 It is indigence which produces these melancholy human plants.
8 Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, deprived of their situations, were gradually reduced to great indigence and misery, and finally became paupers in that very same workhouse in which they had once lorded it over others.
9 haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance.
10 explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire.
Example Sentence:
1 Someone who is truly indigent can't even afford to buy a pack of cigarettes.