IMPOVERISH in a Sentence
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23 example sentences for IMPOVERISH, such as:
1. Heavy rain and excessive use would impoverish the soil.
2. Heavy rain and excessive use have impoverished the soil.
3. Falling coffee prices have impoverished many Third World economies.
4. The loss of their farm left the family impoverished and without hope.
5. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the impoverishment of the country.
2. Heavy rain and excessive use have impoverished the soil.
3. Falling coffee prices have impoverished many Third World economies.
4. The loss of their farm left the family impoverished and without hope.
5. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the impoverishment of the country.
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Meanings and Examples of IMPOVERISH
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impoverished
a. poor; reduced to poverty; deprived of natural richness or strength
Classic Sentence:
1 And they were even going into debt to Tamoszius Kuszleika and letting him impoverish himself.
2 It is a power, that hath no other end but preservation, and therefore can never have a right to destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects.
3 But as for the recently impoverished Atlanta people, they could starve and drop in the streets for all the newly rich Republicans cared.
4 There came cruel, cold, and biting winds, and blizzards of snow, all testing relentlessly for failing muscles and impoverished blood.
5 This enables me at once to perform an act of Christian charity and to remove from the shoulders of our more impoverished proprietors the burden of tax-payment upon souls of the kind specified.
6 Country neighbors from Otradnoe, impoverished old squires and their daughters, Peronskaya a maid of honor, Pierre Bezukhov, and the son of their district postmaster who had obtained a post in Petersburg.
7 He who is impoverished by his wars, even should he come off victorious, can add nothing to his strength, since he spends more than he gains, as the Venetians and Florentines have done.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX.
8 Whence flowed many mischiefs, and more particularly this, that the people being impoverished, but not corrected, sought to make good their injuries at the expense of others weaker than themselves.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIX.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIX.
9 If Richard returns," said Fitzurse, "he returns to enrich his needy and impoverished crusaders at the expense of those who did not follow him to the Holy Land.
10 From this spring two results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
11 To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.
12 Their prosperity and their fatness mean the impoverishment of the country.
Example Sentence:
1 Reducing the income will further impoverish these families and could tempt an offender into further crime.
2 These changes are likely to impoverish single-parent families even further.
3 Fast-growing trees remove nutrients and impoverish the soil.
4 Heavy rain and excessive use would impoverish the soil.
5 He warned that the breakdown of the family unit would lead to an impoverished society.
6 Heavy rain and excessive use have impoverished the soil.
7 If such integration were the aim, it would immediately have enormous resource implications in an already impoverished education system.
8 Falling coffee prices have impoverished many Third World economies.
9 A Haitian woman covered in rubble is rescued in Port-au-Prince after a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation.
10 The loss of their farm left the family impoverished and without hope.
11 WaterCan is a charity devoted to fighting poverty by helping the most impoverished people have access to clean water, basic sanitation and education on hygiene.