How to Use impoverish in a Sentence

impoverish

verb

• Poor farming practices impoverished the soil.
• The dictator enriched himself but impoverished his people.
• By the end of the play, the near-homeless Cyrano is impoverished of resources as well as love and that rarely rings true with some Kevin Kline-type swishing and swashing in the role.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• What is certain is that the fires are newly impoverishing the farmers whose crops have been lost.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2019
• In the Caribbean by providence impoverished In squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 4 June 2019
• Are a wave of subpoenas about to impoverish thousands of bitcoin miners across New York, and the globe?
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2020
• Impoverished renters have been hit the hardest, paying a rising share of their income for housing.
  — idahostatesman, 16 May 2017
• The harsh terms of the treaty purportedly embittered and impoverished the Germans.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 July 2019
• The series shows the U.S. citizen who is willing to live in their partner’s country, which sometimes can be impoverished.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• The series shows the U.S. citizen who is willing to live in their partner's country, which sometimes can be impoverished.
  — Jonathan Landrum Jr., chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2019
• Some have, of course, warned that virtual reality can only impoverish our sense of the world.
  — Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine, 1 Sep. 2017
• Impoverished by the long-running war, Gannon reports the locals likely had little reverence for the 9,000 soldiers that died on both sides of the conflict and tossed them into the mass graves.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 June 2017
• The protesters, who blocked streets in the capital, called for an increased minimum wage, stronger unions and more equitable policies to help the state's impoverished.
  — Edward McKinley, kansascity, 11 June 2018
• The protests have drawn national attention to the plight of Morocco’s impoverished northern Rif region and pose a challenge to the new government.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2017
• Awarding damages for mere mistakes would impoverish debate, the court ruled.
  — The Economist, 18 Mar. 2021
• In desperately poor Afghanistan, the ban seems certain to further impoverish its poorest citizens at a time when the country is in an economic free fall.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
• Be careful that you are not being convinced to impoverish yourself merely to enrich someone else.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2020
• Impoverished Nation In that situation, Vale would likely have to begin the complicated process of having the judgment enforced by courts around the world.
  — Jesse Riseborough, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017
• Episodes from Haitian history are interspersed throughout—from Columbus’s fateful landing in 1492 to the slave trade and the deforestation that has impoverished the island.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• Extra protection for even the shortest snippets will impoverish the public sphere by discouraging the sharing of news.
  — Glyn Moody, Ars Technica, 12 June 2018
• But this approach cannot be allowed to impoverish government, nor should the funds be permitted to bankroll destructive business strategies.
  — Mariana Mazzucato, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2020
• Its mostly Arab population is opposed to Assad, angry with years of neglect that impoverished the area despite its resource wealth.
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
• Billy, as he was known, was also twenty, and also impoverished, uprooted, and lonely.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
• Niger relies heavily on foreign aid and sanctions could further impoverish its more than 25 million people.
  — Sam Mednick, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
• The point is that the sacrifices families made to shoulder their debt burden brought home the folly of forcing families to impoverish themselves to attain higher education.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
• Cattle ranching, which has been intensifying across the savanna, can lead to overgrazing, eroding and impoverishing the soil and helping shrubs invade the grasslands.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2020
• President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, who came to power through a military coup—has pursued a bleaker approach that is keeping his state solvent by impoverishing his people.
  — Anthony Bubalo, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2020
• Johnson, who missed removal by one vote, tried and failed to get the Democratic nomination in 1868, and his historical legacy, already poor, has been further impoverished by his impeachment.
  — Noah Feldman, The New York Review of Books, 19 Dec. 2019
• By the time he’s done formulating an answer, he’s laid out in layman’s terms, short sentences, and large print how a stylistic movement impoverished a worldwide architectural ecology, making people sick and poisoning the atmosphere.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2023
• The efficiencies were used to enrich the factory owners while impoverishing everyone else.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024