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Example sentences for "pecuniary difficulties"

  • The second Earl of Oxford had a passion for building and landscape gardening, as well as for collecting books, paintings and curiosities, and some years before his death these expensive tastes involved him in pecuniary difficulties.

  • Unfortunately the Earl died in 1741, and Oldys was obliged to earn a precarious livelihood by working for booksellers, and was soon involved in pecuniary difficulties.

  • Towards the end of his life Rawlinson became involved in pecuniary difficulties, and he sold a portion of his collection by auction to meet his liabilities.

  • Pecuniary difficulties are a tiresome subject, even when they happen to be the pecuniary difficulties of a genius.

  • Owing to this cause he was constantly involved in pecuniary difficulties, and, as he himself described his situation, he was perpetually begging his bread from the Emperor at Prague.

  • He gave us to understand that in our children we lived again, and that, under the pressure of pecuniary difficulties, any accession to their number was doubly welcome.

  • I have no scruple in saying, in the presence of our friends here, that I am a man who has, for some years, contended against the pressure of pecuniary difficulties.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pecuniary difficulties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    afraid you; calls attention; deceitful phantom; dingy white; each group; forty hours; friend said; gunshot wounds; honest work; including some; interesting story; kingly government; must confess; order arms; pecuniary difficulties; pecuniary interest; polite society; remember when; silver dollars; speculative thought; still later; then being; village near