How to Use impoverished in a Sentence

impoverished

adjective
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  • The hills here are dotted with impoverished villages and split by rivers that gush through ravines to the sea.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Despair has deepened in the impoverished refugee camps that still dot the West Bank.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • As Luz puts it, the Amazon is a rich but impoverished place.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The impoverished but once stable nation has been the subject of two of the five coups that have rocked West Africa in the past two years.
    — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Proceeds will be used to help improve the lives of impoverished children around the world.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 May 2022
  • It’s the slums, though, and one of the most impoverished and overpopulated places in West Africa.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 3 May 2022
  • But our way of existing will be impoverished in the process.
    — Nir Eisikovits, Fortune, 7 July 2023
  • Food and water are dwindling as stands and stores selling to impoverished Haitians run out of goods.
    — Dánica Coto and Evens Sanon, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024
  • There are inner cities that are extremely impoverished and these are the fans that lifted me up over the years.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Ten-year-old Rocco Tano feels trapped in the impoverished rural town of Ortona and lost in the chaos of his family life.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The book tells the story of an impoverished and abused Black girl who is fixated on White standards of beauty and longs for blue eyes.
    — Andy Rose, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022
  • In recent decades, this ranching and farming region has become one of the most impoverished in the state.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2022
  • In Iraq, protests broke out this week in the impoverished south over surging prices, Al Jazeera reported.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Community members in the impoverished parts of the town turn out to be less likely to be able to get a ride from a self-driving car.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • Some of the worst of the fighting has been concentrated in impoverished West Darfur.
    — Helena Skinner, ABC News, 4 June 2023
  • At present, Gaza has been destroyed and the West Bank has been severely impoverished.
    — Mohammad Shtayyeh, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2024
  • Community members in the impoverished parts of the town were less likely to be able to get a ride from a self-driving car.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Even though there is so much available, the offer is impoverished.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The impoverished nation publicly acknowledged the virus had breached its borders for the first time in May.
    — Tara John, CNN, 6 July 2022
  • The boys’ village life, though impoverished, is not shown to be oppressive.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The María here is a woman from an impoverished neighborhood in Mexico City who falls in love with a wealthy man.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The zone refers to 13 schools in and around Louisville's West End that serve an overwhelming number of students from impoverished backgrounds.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Many of the children are Kurdish, many impoverished, and now, in the wake of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit this region last week, many are homeless.
    — Erin O'Brien, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Some of the aid—like a trip to learn de-mining techniques—even comes from impoverished nations like Cambodia.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2023
  • These are the only magnet high schools where at least 75% of its students are from impoverished households.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 11 Apr. 2024
  • An impoverished young man must weigh a militia recruiter’s promise of riches against the prospect of death in battle.
    — Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • What seems strange but apt is that there is a lot of advice the impoverished could give to the better off on how to become poor, or at least financially strained.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
  • This is, yes, the story of Elvis’ life, from impoverished and troubled birth to premature, unglamorous death.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2022
  • Part of what made the performance so powerful was the heartbreaking scene in which her impoverished character, Fantine, has to sell her hair to send money to her child – and Hathaway wasn't just acting in that scene.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Abrahamian is alert to the poignant ironies at play when the leaders of an impoverished former colony recognize that their only real leverage abroad lies in their ability to compromise their power at home.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024

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