How to Use impoverished in a Sentence

impoverished

adjective
  • The goal was to help impoverished workers get back to their jobs.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • The film takes place the day after a riot in one of the impoverished banlieue districts near Paris.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • In short, the impoverished Lily Bart needs to marry rich while middle-class Ivy Lin chooses to.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • This town is a mining town that produced a lot of copper but was still impoverished.
    — Jeff Bordes, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Even before the Taliban took over, hunger was rife in the impoverished country, and now young girls are paying the price with their bodies -- and their lives.
    — Anna Coren, Rebecca Wright and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • More than 200 trees arrived at the park in total, dug out of the soil in the impoverished villages and thick forests of Georgia, a small nation in the Caucasus.
    — New York Times, 17 Jan. 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
  • Death and destruction in the long impoverished Gaza Strip.
    — NBC News, 22 May 2021
  • But that drive — the DOGE thing — appears to be more centered on the hoops businesses need to jump through, not impoverished people.
    — Emily Peck, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But the needs of impoverished children can’t be met by charity alone; the scale of poverty is too massive.
    — Caleb Brennan, The New Republic, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Post-Civil War, however, the nation was tired, and large segments of the population—especially in the South—were impoverished.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • In the meantime, the new administrators warn that the Kennedy Center is impoverished, that the facility has become shoddy and that some of its programming ill serves the American ideal.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2025

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