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Example sentences for "impecunious"

Lexicographically close words:
impeachments; impeccability; impeccable; impeccably; impecuniosity; impedance; impede; impeded; impedes; impediment
  1. Here the not impecunious traveller might tarry long to visit the islands around or the lochs and falls inland.

  2. Many of the impecunious newcomers schemed against me because I could not furnish them all with light work and heavy pay.

  3. After leaving the High School her father had for four years allowed her a private tutor (an impecunious graduate from the Harvard Theological School).

  4. It had been with the impecunious theological student who was her tutor.

  5. From the calmness of his manner you would have supposed that salaried appointments hung on every lamp-post, ready to drop into the mouths of impecunious young men of letters.

  6. So that Mackinnon was not slow to perceive the advantages of an alliance with impecunious brilliance.

  7. And yet there was no bitterness in the dismay with which he contemplated his present forlorn and impecunious state.

  8. I will try to believe in your impecunious betrothed, Catherine, and soon you must make him come down to Beverbridge to see me, or rather that I may see him.

  9. The impecunious newspaper cannot give its readers promptly the news, nor able discussion of the news, and, still worse, it cannot be independent.

  10. Considered as "stock," the American Girl has been quoted high, and the alliances that she has formed with families impecunious but noble have given her eclat as belonging to a new and conquering race in the world.

  11. I am an impecunious young woman of luxurious tastes.

  12. I had no idea, Mr. Wadham, if you will forgive my saying so, that your firm was in so impecunious a position.

  13. In "Vanity Fair" we find it described as the temporary abode of the impecunious Colonel Crawley, and Moss describes his uncomfortable past and present guests in a manner worthy of Fielding himself.

  14. Charles Lamb, speaking of Dekker's share in Massinger's Virgin Martyr, highly eulogises the impecunious poet.

  15. The impecunious one regarded him attentively.

  16. His entrance had snapped the tension between his impecunious step-nephew and the painter.

  17. She was taken up by Lord and Lady Roseville, impecunious folk who would take up anyone for value received.

  18. But as his captive turned round and showed his sullen face the Duke knew that this was no mere impecunious vagabond, sneaking a cheap railway journey.

  19. Not a few impecunious zealots abjured the use of money (unless earned by other people), professing to live on the internal revenues of the spirit.

  20. In 1847 she married an impecunious Italian nobleman, the Marquis Ossoli.

  21. There I found an impecunious American who had taken the contract to furnish transportation for the regiment at a stipulated price per hundred pounds for the freight and so much for each saddle animal.

  22. There is an unwritten code in force in this respect, every paragraph of which is made and provided to cover the individual needs of such impecunious officers.

  23. In the mean time Tone had taken a step which brilliant, gifted, generous, and impecunious young men usually take at the opening of their career--he had made a sudden marriage.

  24. It is only at such places as the entrance-hall of a great hotel that the impecunious can really see with their own eyes, and properly understand, what great riches can actually do for their possessor.

  25. To his rank and his position in the Ministry he speedily found that she was absolutely indifferent, and was as ready to dance and laugh with an impecunious younger son as with himself.

  26. It then presently becomes impracticable to accumulate wealth by simple seizure, and, in logical consistency, acquisition by industry is equally impossible for high minded and impecunious men.

  27. That is to say, it inhibits activity in the directions in which the impecunious members of the community habitually put forth their efforts.

  28. Hence results a class of impecunious gentlemen of leisure, incidentally referred to already.

  29. There are periods when I am convinced that not art, not literature, but journalism is the most impecunious of the professions, and that all Fleet Street, to which the Quarter is fairly convenient, must be out of work.

  30. He was supposed to be the benefactor of beauty in distress—the guide, philosopher, and friend, of impecunious maidenhood.

  31. In these days the Bohemian thinks it no longer good form to roam around the town attired in the negligent seediness of the impecunious student of the Quartier Latin.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impecunious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beggared; destitute; distressed; embarrassed; fortune; hard; impeccable; impecunious; impoverished; indigent; narrow; needy; penurious; pinched; poor; reduced; short; squeezed; straitened; strapped; unprosperous