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Example sentences for "indigent"

Lexicographically close words:
indifferently; indigenas; indigence; indigenes; indigenous; indigested; indigestible; indigestion; indignant; indignantly
  1. For there was an extreme inequality amongst them, and their state was overloaded with a multitude of indigent and necessitous persons, while its whole wealth had centered upon a very few.

  2. For it is not as hard a task to gratify the indigent and distressed, as to bear up against, and to dare to incur the anger of the powerful.

  3. When the parents are so indigent as to have no hope of maintaining their children, the daughters are murdered, for a son can earn his living in a few years, and assist his parents in addition.

  4. They are generally the children of indigent parents, and good looks are essential to success in their calling, between which and prostitution there seems no difference save in name.

  5. Naturally benevolent, as are all women, they contribute liberally to charitable objects, and freely relieve any indigent persons who may ask their assistance.

  6. They however confined not their views to the subjects of Britain alone, but wisely opened a door also for oppressed and indigent Protestants from other nations.

  7. Most of those bibles which were here burnt had been extorted from indigent and credulous persons, who perhaps had not money to purchase more for themselves.

  8. These moneys are kept to furnish indigent Israelitish couples with the means of marrying, and who claim the benefit of the fund are entitled to it.

  9. People are building on the site of the old convent a hospital for indigent and decrepit women, where a religious sisterhood will have care of the inmates.

  10. Our great cause of surprise, is the sudden rise of individuals in comparatively indigent circumstances to places of great power.

  11. Several indigent citizens contributed to compose a single head, or share of taxation; while the wealthy provincial, in proportion to his fortune, alone represented several of those imaginary beings.

  12. Nor does it prohibit individual congregations from having funds under their own care, for the purpose of defraying their own expenses, and assisting any of their indigent brethren.

  13. There are at the Criminal Bar a number of newly-fledged barristers, and several indigent and disappointed men who are content to gain a small and precarious livelihood.

  14. In the old days the poor blind were educated as beggars, and the more intelligent of the indigent blind were appropriately nicknamed by Theodore Hook the indignant blind.

  15. In what place, beside, do landlords and agents extort such vast rents from an indigent race?

  16. H was an indigent Hen, Who picked up a corn now and then; She had but one leg On which she could peg, And behind her left ear was a wen.

  17. Some approved of this; but the population is much poorer than I, at first, thought, and the indigent are glad to catch anything.

  18. But the disadvantage always is, if it get abroad that such a mission is coming, laden with presents, money and provisions, the danger is tenfold augmented, whilst an indigent person like myself is in comparative security.

  19. The object of this noble institution is the maintenance and education of poor and fatherless boys, or of boys in indigent circumstances, "freemen's sons of the town of Edinburgh.

  20. The indigent and the affluent can neither be friends nor quarrel with each other.

  21. O thou of dull apprehension, great kings can never be friends with such luckless and indigent wights as thou!

  22. O thou of simple understanding, great kings can never have friendship with such indigent and luckless wight as thou.

  23. The Mayor entertained a large party at the Drill Hall, and gave a dinner at the Corn Hall to the indigent blind and to poor children; and the Norwich Athletic Club held sports on the Newmarket Road Ground.

  24. The Lord Mayor of London (Sir Joseph Savory) and the Lady Mayoress visited Norwich for the purpose of opening the new buildings of the Asylum and School for the Indigent Blind.

  25. Any person bringing a child or indigent person into this county without being legally indentured, shall be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

  26. General Howard said Northern humanitarians ought to have a share in this Christian enterprise of furnishing work for the able-bodied and assisting to care for these indigent children; and he urged me to bring as many as practicable.

  27. About this time we opened a manual labor school on our premises, designed for indigent children.

  28. In these, the children are instructed either gratis or for a very trifling weekly payment, which all parents, except those in indigent circumstances, can easily afford.

  29. It was built by Hans Jacob Fugger the Rich, as long ago as 1519, and is still inhabited by indigent Roman-Catholic families, according to the intention of its founder.

  30. Hospitals should be state-owned, and the indigent blind should be pensioned by the state.

  31. These lines, as first printed, read: "How low, how indigent the proud!

  32. Indigent bright Caroline, a young lady of fine aquiline features and spirit, was applied for to be Queen of Spain; wooer a handsome man, who might even be Kaiser by and by.

  33. My dear mistress has given her a small room as a store-house for clothing and books for her indigent neighbors.

  34. She equally shrunk from untitled opulence and indigent nobility.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indigent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.