How to Use pauper in a Sentence

pauper

noun
  • Later, these caves housed the bones of plague victims and paupers.
    — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Later, these caves housed the bones of plague victims and paupers.
    — Rick Steves, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The cricketing hero was laid to rest in the pauper's section.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 4 Apr. 2021
  • The call of nature must be answered even by kings and queens, and all the way down to the lowliest pauper.
    — Orange County Register Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 1 June 2017
  • Instead, town officials buried him in a pauper’s grave.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In Colonial times lobster meat was fed to pigs and goats and eaten only by paupers.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2019
  • If the ashes are not picked up, the county buries them together in a single pauper’s grave.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • If the ashes are not picked up, the county buries them together in a single pauper’s grave.
    — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Bournemouth are not a pauper club any more, but the performance this season has still be remarkable.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Mexican law made princes of many who might have been paupers in the United States.
    — H.w. Brands, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Home to princes and paupers, the Eternal City is used to catering to all budgets.
    — Lee Marshall, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Money buys talent – both coaches and players – and Auburn is no pauper.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Within a year, Rembrandt was dead, a pauper assigned an anonymous grave.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Pick your favorite fast food restaurant and order everything on it for a princely feast on a pauper's paycheck.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2023
  • After Dexter Wade's remains were exhumed, his gravesite in the pauper's field was smoothed over.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Our whole idea is that God is coming among us, that God has taken up residence not as a prince, but as a pauper.
    — Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
  • No one was charged with Randolph’s murder and his body was buried in an unmarked grave in the pauper’s cemetery of the local almshouse.
    — Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • According to the newspaper, the allowance made for burying paupers was less than $3 each.
    — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Miles, the eldest, is a top lawyer and yuppie who becomes a drug addict and pauper, then turns his life around and becomes a state senator.
    — Mark Greif, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The Frasers find out that Jane has been buried in an unmarked grave in a pauper’s field, news that devastates Frances.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Tenor Scott Brunscheen is the prince in pauper's clothing that the queen and every woman in her court desires.
    — Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader, 5 June 2018
  • Graham praised Grisham-Stewart and said the pauper's grave issue was not a concern.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Then, on July 14, inmates at the county penal farm had buried his remains in a pauper’s field.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • But science has found that eating breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper might be the key to living longer, healthier lives.
    — Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The woman was killed by one of Iblis’ masters, a pauper who dreamed of infinite wealth and attention.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Brzyski was buried in a pauper's grave in Arlington in October.
    — CBS News, 6 Feb. 2018
  • In Renaissance Europe towns such as Ypres collected alms to pay for ways of putting paupers to work.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • When the new sections were added, the old burying ground became a pauper's cemetery for poor White and and Black residents.
    — Alexandria Burris, IndyStar, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Brian Niccol, the coffee chain boss, is paid a pauper’s sum of nearly $100 million.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The number of paupers in sub-Saharan Africa is holding steady at roughly 415m.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017

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