pauper
Example Sentences
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It also helped that Crawford was not exactly a pauper and got only marginally outspent in a race that saw over $107 million in expenditures.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2025
He kept a stash of money sewed into his ragged coat and conveniently escaped for a hot bath and a good meal while pretending to pass as a pauper.
From Salon • Aug. 13, 2024
Many were buried in Portland cemeteries, some in unmarked pauper graves.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2024
The goal is not to make Putin a pauper.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2022
“If a single one of you comes onto the pauper rolls, where do you think the money to keep you will come from? It will come from the people of Phippsburg.”
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
Vocabulary lists containing pauper
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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"A Rose for Emily"
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