Example sentences for: impoverished

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

  • The fax had been sent from thousands of miles away by the followers of a Saudi exile gathered in one of the most remote and impoverished countries on earth.

  • After a 16th century in which Naples had become the largest town in Europe — and one of the liveliest — the south was increasingly oppressed and impoverished.

  • 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.

  • Maybe I'll just visit an impoverished Indian reservation."


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