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Example sentences for: impoverished

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(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.)
In a perfectly constructed ballad of the depressed mid-thirties he captures the mood of our own impoverished times and offers his punning remedy to gloom:
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.
Horthy maintained his role as regent in the grim twenties and thirties while the country, demoralized and impoverished, seethed over the treaty.
It's sad to imagine her returning to her manuscripts a few years later in a state of irritable, impoverished resignation.