Words similar to impoverished

Example sentences for: impoverished

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

We would all feel oddly impoverished, I think, in a world where the occasional malpractice case was never passed off as a "negative patient-care outcome" or where the occasional plane crash was never described as a "failure to maintain ground clearance."
(He's well on his way: The Associated Press reported this week that two airplanes bought by his "Operation Blessing" to fly aid to impoverished Zairians were used instead to service Robertson's Zairian diamond mines.)
Growing up impoverished in Berlin, he was drafted into the rag-tag teen-age and old-age army that fought for Hitler in the last days of World War II.
Maybe I'll just visit an impoverished Indian reservation."
In impoverished areas, this can devastate a family's chances of economic survival.