Example sentences for: pauper

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

  • One lacking in imagination could use Povero (poor) or Scarso (scarce) to name a pauper or a miser.

  • But even Swan went to his pauper's grave still hoping for a rail connection to Seattle, and Seattle remains Port Townsend's undesignated home port.

  • We sat together at one summer's end,That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,And you and I, and talked of poetry.I said, "A line will take us hours maybe;Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.Better go down upon your marrow-bonesAnd scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stonesLike an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;For to articulate sweet sounds togetherIs to work harder than all these, and yetBe thought an idler by the noisy setOf bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymenThe martyrs call the world."

  • Orrin Hatch's musical tribute to Mother Teresa and Princess Di: "A princess and a pauper/ Walked the lonely roads of life/ In many ways so different/ And yet so much alike ...

  • 3. May have attended in disguise, like that Prince and the Pauper thing


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