How to Use indigent in a Sentence

indigent

adjective
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  • Because he was indigent, the court appointed a lawyer to defend him.
  • Still, police abuses persist, and public funding for legal aid to indigent people is insufficient to meet the need.
    — Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2024
  • The somewhat less indigent are asked to pay back between 30% and 70%.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The county owns a section of the cemetery for indigent burials, with the first dating back to 1931.
    — Heather Kennison, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
  • In June, the city court agreed to refund some fees paid by indigent defendants to avoid jail.
    — Kevin McGill, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Some of the families are indigent, some of them don't know where the insurance is.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The sculpture’s site, on Venice Beach, means that the work’s authentic public are the homeless and indigent people who spend the most time there.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 9 July 2019
  • And their share of the expense of providing healthcare to the indigent via Medicaid.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Many of the indigent and neglected of the Boston landscape moved into the encampment.
    — Quinn Norton, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2011
  • The in-person meeting that indigent detainees get with those project lawyers is their first contact, sometimes after weeks or months in jail.
    — Liz Robbins, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • Pope Francis’ advocacy for the world’s poor, unmoored and indigent is admired by many, both Catholic and non.
    — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The lawsuit says each of the plaintiffs is indigent and facing the possibility of years or decades in prison if found guilty of the allegations against them.
    — Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Because Eubank was found indigent, the court would cover the cost of the investigator, Pierce said.
    — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Again, the state does not officially track indigent cases such as these.
    — Stefano Dipietrantonio, Cincinnati.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • In most counties, attorneys are paid a flat fee, no matter how many indigent clients they are assigned.
    — Caleb Bedillion, ProPublica, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The state of Illinois has a fund for indigent burials, used to reimburse coroner's offices.
    — Gloria Casas, Elgin Courier-News, 25 May 2017
  • For instance, the indigent care levy has been in place continuously for 51 years.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 21 July 2017
  • Meanwhile, the indigent villagers where the rhinos are located can make a year’s salary by working with poachers.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
  • The United States is not a repatriation center where any indigent person in the world feels free to just walk in and assume that all of us will take care of all of them and their families.
    — Fox News, 19 June 2018
  • In June, Sandoval approved the creation of a commission to study indigent defense.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Airone said regulators have told him that, without legislative changes, the taxes would apply to the full value of cannabis given to the sick and indigent.
    — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2018
  • In Texas, indigent defenders sometimes opt for jail time to zero out their balances.
    — Glenn Thrush, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • For her, these crumbling structures are crowded with ghosts — of indigent children and fellow nurses lost to disease or time.
    — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The bill passed on Thursday includes a substantial tax cut for the rich, financed by big cuts in Medicaid, the federal program that provides health care to the poor and indigent.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 4 May 2017
  • But Metro Government reporter Darcy Costello came to me with a great story idea about how the city’s indigent cemetery is almost full.
    — Kristina Goetz, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The offender would pay for the treatment unless a court determined the offender was indigent.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al.com, 5 June 2019
  • While these attorneys cared about helping indigent defendants, Carder said many found jobs with higher pay and less work.
    — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2023
  • Peters died alone in his apartment in 2016 and received an indigent cremation.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Of course, those costs will continue to skyrocket as in addition to the poor and indigent who urgently need care, there is the daily toll of gunshot victims.
    — Randy Blaser, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
  • Both were found to be indigent but didn't have attorneys appointed to represent them at their bail hearings.
    — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2022

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