Example sentences for: impoverished

How can you use “impoverished” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As Devine has no living relations, it makes sense for the impoverished old men to cook up a scheme by which Michael will assume the dead fisherman's identity, and the pair will divide the money between themselves.

  • It found the heaviest 5 percent of women were half as likely to get married and twice as likely to become impoverished as others.

  • Born in the porcelain manufacturing city of Limoges in 1841, the son of an impoverished tailor and a dressmaker, Renoir was apprenticed at age 13 to a porcelain painter in Paris whose firm specialized in imitations of Limoges ware.

  • Horthy maintained his role as regent in the grim twenties and thirties while the country, demoralized and impoverished, seethed over the treaty.

  • Although many critiques of globalization and free trade depend, at least implicitly, on Marx's immiseration thesis, which held that growth in a capitalist economy inevitably impoverished most while enriching a few, the experience of most capitalist economies, and especially those in the Third World, has demonstrated exactly the opposite.


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