Example Sentences

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The present, mundane in comparison to what sci-fi of the past promised us, seems to have beggared our collective imagination.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2014

By joining hands in a multiracial transition council, they can lift the international sanctions that have beggared them both.

From Time Magazine Archive

My finances are at their lowest ebb, and to have beggared myself for an impossible meal would have been no joke.

From A Chair on the Boulevard by Merrick, Leonard

Hungry and ragged he wrote of Epicurean feasts and luxury that would have beggared the purpled pomp of pagan Rome and put Nero and his Golden House to shame.

From A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays by Cather, Willa Sibert

Do you realize I have beggared our whole family, Nannie?

From The Carved Cupboard by Le Feuvre, Amy