How to Use impoverished in a Sentence

impoverished

adjective

• The hills here are dotted with impoverished villages and split by rivers that gush through ravines to the sea.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
• Despair has deepened in the impoverished refugee camps that still dot the West Bank.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• As Luz puts it, the Amazon is a rich but impoverished place.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• The impoverished but once stable nation has been the subject of two of the five coups that have rocked West Africa in the past two years.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• Proceeds will be used to help improve the lives of impoverished children around the world.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 May 2022
• It’s the slums, though, and one of the most impoverished and overpopulated places in West Africa.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 3 May 2022
• But our way of existing will be impoverished in the process.
  — Nir Eisikovits, Fortune, 7 July 2023
• Food and water are dwindling as stands and stores selling to impoverished Haitians run out of goods.
  — Dánica Coto and Evens Sanon, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024
• There are inner cities that are extremely impoverished and these are the fans that lifted me up over the years.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
• Ten-year-old Rocco Tano feels trapped in the impoverished rural town of Ortona and lost in the chaos of his family life.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
• Even before the Taliban took over, hunger was rife in the impoverished country, and now young girls are paying the price with their bodies -- and their lives.
  — Anna Coren, Rebecca Wright and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
• The book tells the story of an impoverished and abused Black girl who is fixated on White standards of beauty and longs for blue eyes.
  — Andy Rose, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022
• In recent decades, this ranching and farming region has become one of the most impoverished in the state.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2022
• In Iraq, protests broke out this week in the impoverished south over surging prices, Al Jazeera reported.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• Community members in the impoverished parts of the town turn out to be less likely to be able to get a ride from a self-driving car.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• Some of the worst of the fighting has been concentrated in impoverished West Darfur.
  — Helena Skinner, ABC News, 4 June 2023
• At present, Gaza has been destroyed and the West Bank has been severely impoverished.
  — Mohammad Shtayyeh, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2024
• Community members in the impoverished parts of the town were less likely to be able to get a ride from a self-driving car.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• More than 200 trees arrived at the park in total, dug out of the soil in the impoverished villages and thick forests of Georgia, a small nation in the Caucasus.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2022
• Even though there is so much available, the offer is impoverished.
  — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 19 Oct. 2022
• The impoverished nation publicly acknowledged the virus had breached its borders for the first time in May.
  — Tara John, CNN, 6 July 2022
• The boys’ village life, though impoverished, is not shown to be oppressive.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
• The María here is a woman from an impoverished neighborhood in Mexico City who falls in love with a wealthy man.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• But there is a long way to go to reach that lofty goal, especially in the city's impoverished neighborhoods.
  — James E. Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2021
• The zone refers to 13 schools in and around Louisville's West End that serve an overwhelming number of students from impoverished backgrounds.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2022
• Many of the children are Kurdish, many impoverished, and now, in the wake of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit this region last week, many are homeless.
  — Erin O'Brien, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2023
• Some of the aid—like a trip to learn de-mining techniques—even comes from impoverished nations like Cambodia.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2023
• These are the only magnet high schools where at least 75% of its students are from impoverished households.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 11 Apr. 2024
• Money—the type that can be spent on anything—has been out of favor as a method of helping impoverished Americans.
  — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
• Haitian gangs are well-armed, with weapons often smuggled from the United States, giving them significant power over impoverished neighborhoods.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024