How to Use poverty in a Sentence

poverty

noun

• He was born in poverty.
• There is a poverty of information about the disease.
• Yet far too many are paid near poverty wages.
  — Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2026
• There’s poverty and there’s crime.
  — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 18 June 2026
• Guyana is a country with high poverty rates.
  — Anabella González, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
• There’s the poverty factor as well.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• All that and grinding poverty, too.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
• So many of these kids come from poverty and may have been happy with chump change at one time.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
• There are many levels of poverty as there are many levels of wealth.
  — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
• There are many levels of poverty as there are many levels of wealth.
  — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
• Some come from extreme poverty.
  — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 6 May 2026
• How can people plan to avoid poverty as an older adult?
  — Medora Lee, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
• This has been a challenging year for groups that help those in poverty.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
• For many, poverty and despair hang over them like a toxic cloud.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• And crime was seen by each of them as a means of relieving the pain of poverty.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
• An abundance of poverty is the result.
  — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025
• Doesn’t mean poverty wasn’t around him, doesn’t mean violence or crime wasn’t around him.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2024
• The poverty rate is also among the lowest of large Texas cities.
  — Alex Driggars, Austin American Statesman, 16 Mar. 2026
• Sheffield has used her first days in office to back efforts to address poverty.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 12 Jan. 2026
• In fact the word poverty comes from the old French word poverté , which refers to a wretched state.
  — Rahkim Sabree, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• Schools with higher poverty get more funding.
  — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026
• The shortfall is worse for districts with higher rates of poverty.
  — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
• So there have been a lot of episodes of hunger, poverty, war, political strife.
  — Jessica Carbone, Saveur, 29 May 2024
• The doors have since remained shut to keep workers safe amid issues with crime and poverty in the area.
  — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
• High rates of poverty and homelessness.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
• Our nation still had much poverty and many injustices.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
• Two-thirds of that growth would be enough to end global poverty for a year, Riddell said.
  — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 19 Jan. 2026
• However, wages remain low and prices and poverty high.
  — Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
• Millions of Haitians live in extreme poverty.
  — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
• But worse than the poverty was the verbal and physical abuse from his father.
  — John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025