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Six example sentences with penurious, each labelled with its topic.
Dickens gave the clerk a penurious household where one candle had to serve four children reading at the same table.
Literature
Weavers displaced by the power loom spent penurious decades in cellars, pawning tools they had inherited from their fathers.
History
The composer's penurious final years left him copying other people's scores for pennies while his operas filled foreign theaters.
Music
The penurious painter traded canvases for meals, and the cafe that fed him now hangs a fortune on its walls.
Art
Surveys of penurious households found that most spent more on transport to work than on food for the week.
Economics
Spinoza chose a penurious life grinding lenses rather than accept a professorship that came with conditions on his writing.
Philosophy
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