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
  • Even though there is so much available, the offer is impoverished.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 19 Oct. 2022
  • This town is a mining town that produced a lot of copper but was still impoverished.
    — Jeff Bordes, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Proceeds will be used to help improve the lives of impoverished children around the world.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 May 2022
  • The youngsters took the train south to the deep, impoverished heart of China.
    — Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Both white- and Black-owned farms face threats in impoverished rural parts of the country.
    — Colin Meyn, The Hill, 23 May 2025
  • The region is impoverished and most people farm for a living.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2020
  • 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
  • The boys’ village life, though impoverished, is not shown to be oppressive.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Many of the men are from impoverished backgrounds and know little of what might await them in Russia.
    — Max Saltman, CNN Money, 28 June 2026
  • Despair has deepened in the impoverished refugee camps that still dot the West Bank.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • She was placed in an impoverished neighborhood with a lot of violence.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 24 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • But there is a long way to go to reach that lofty goal, especially in the city's impoverished neighborhoods.
    — James E. Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The film takes place the day after a riot in one of the impoverished banlieue districts near Paris.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Pakistan is the main source of goods and food supplies for landlocked, impoverished Afghanistan.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Flesh is an attempt to write richly about a hollow man, in that hollow man’s own impoverished language.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The post office is still the social hub of Marshall, a stoic but impoverished place.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
  • 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
  • Nearly all of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch and live in some of the most impoverished areas of the two cities.
    — Rachel Ryan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2021
  • 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
  • Almost every child who goes into foster care is impoverished and almost all leave foster care broke.
    — Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The film takes place the day after a riot in one of the impoverished banlieue districts on the outskirts of Paris.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Even if climate change does not trigger a full-fledged economic panic, whole regions will be thinned out and impoverished.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The United States must step away from war and send food to Venezuela’s impoverished people.
    — William Lambers, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The impoverished nation publicly acknowledged the virus had breached its borders for the first time in May.
    — Tara John, CNN, 6 July 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

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