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Example sentences for: indigent

How can you use “indigent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

"The current Clinton-appointed board has thumbed its nose at congressional attempts to focus the Legal Services Corp. on its mission of helping indigent litigants in certain types of proceedings."
That is how indigent criminal defenders get paid.
Under federal law, money for legal aid is distributed to the states based on the number of indigent residents.
The ruling stunned Cindra Walker, the lawyer for the two women, who is with Central Kentucky Legal Services, which represents many of the thousands of indigent women caught in abusive relationships.
D. Miller, Jr., of Legal Services of New Jersey; Jonathan Ross ofthe American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants; Faith Rivers of the South Carolina Bar Association; and Jeanne Charn, director of Clinical Legal Education at Harvard Law School.