Meanings of sunk in poverty in English

A large portion, moreover, of the nobility were deeply sunk in poverty and debt.

They are for the most part sunk in poverty, and possess but little of the outward trappings of rank.

Their common people are sunk in poverty, ignorance, and cowardice, and of as little consequence as women and children.

Unfortunately the greater number of her geniuses learn to understand life so quickly that they lie sunk in poverty-stricken pleasure.

These indeed had incredible accumulations, but the remainder of the forty millions-thewhole people, in fact, save an infinitesimal fraction-weresunk in poverty.

"If they remained at home," said he, "we should all be sunk in poverty, scrambling with each other amongst these hills for a bare living.