Example Sentences

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One former minister Chris Bryant, who believes his phone was hacked but that the case was never investigated by the police, said the officers' evidence had "beggared belief."

From Time • Jul. 12, 2011

Harren had beggared the riverlands and the Iron Islands alike to ornament his dream.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Was his marriage after all not the horrid thing she had thought it, but an honest effort to atone to the child he had beggared?

From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

He had saved him by silence and by loans which had beggared him in lending.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

It had beggared Magnus and had driven him to a state of semi-insanity after he had wrecked his honour in the vain attempt to do evil that good might come.

From The Octopus : A story of California by Norris, Frank