How to Use impoverished in a Sentence

impoverished

adjective

• Despair has deepened in the impoverished refugee camps that still dot the West Bank.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Some of the worst of the fighting has been concentrated in impoverished West Darfur.
  — Helena Skinner, ABC News, 4 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Both girls live in lavish houses in a fancy part of Paris, and Rouch, no less than Pialat in his impoverished suburb, wants to see whether love exists.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
• Niger, an impoverished nation of 25 million people that is nearly twice the size of Texas, has recently been the exception to that trend.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Suspension would have huge consequences both for Price and his South L.A. district, which takes in some of the city’s most impoverished neighborhoods.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
• How many impoverished bus riders are at JCPS' magnet schools?
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2024
• Prater’s experiences with impoverished students led him to form the nonprofit L.A. Room and Board in 2018.
  — Charlotte Kramon, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
• But then young Coriolanus is assigned to mentor the girl tribute from impoverished District 12 . .
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
• That’s a lot for a newly jobless, separated and impoverished young woman to take on.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• The summit, rival protests and dueling statements fueled the growing sense of crisis in Niger, a vast and impoverished country.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 30 July 2023
• That unleashed a barrage of Israeli airstrikes on the crowded and impoverished Gaza Strip that Gaza health authorities say have killed thousands.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• The prospect of adding hundreds of thousands of refugees to the millions of already impoverished Egyptians is more than any Egyptian government could tolerate.
  — Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2023
• But Alabama’s fastest-shrinking counties in 2022 are all in the Black Belt - a historic but impoverished region that’s long been losing people.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 2 Apr. 2023
• The police operation deals a major blow to the ‘Ndrangheta, which emerged from Italy’s impoverished south to become a dominant player in the global cocaine trade.
  — Margherita Stancati, wsj.com, 3 May 2023
• The armed forces have pride of place in Pskov, an impoverished region that offers few options to young men and where the military is the biggest employer along with a local distillery and the border control.
  — Evan Gershkovich, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Their work here has pulled Hansen and his team into a fierce debate over how best to sustainably preserve the biosphere around the site, as well as the impoverished communities that live off the jungle’s bounty.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• In all that time, neither Frankie nor Winston stand out as compelling leads; we’re simply instructed to care about them via black-and-white flashbacks to their impoverished Bronx childhoods that open each episode.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• Kim is also seeking food aid for his impoverished nation.
  — Edward Wong and, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
• Here, in a small and impoverished nation that sends nearly 1 in 10 people abroad to work - often in some of the world’s hottest places - the disease, and its consequences, can be seen with devastating clarity.
  — Gerry Shih, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Ríos Montt offered the impoverished Ixil people food in exchange for supporting his rule and threatened those who refused.
  — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• While there are tax credits and rebates to help install air conditioning, most remain out of reach for impoverished households.
  — Jesse Bedayn, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from the impoverished District 12.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
• The 140-square-mile territory, home to more than 2 million Palestinians, is one of the most impoverished, densely populated enclaves in the world.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024