How to Use impoverished in a Sentence

impoverished

adjective

• The goal was to help impoverished workers get back to their jobs.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
• 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
• This town is a mining town that produced a lot of copper but was still impoverished.
  — Jeff Bordes, Forbes, 13 Dec. 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
• Death and destruction in the long impoverished Gaza Strip.
  — NBC News, 22 May 2021
• But that drive — the DOGE thing — appears to be more centered on the hoops businesses need to jump through, not impoverished people.
  — Emily Peck, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
• Nearly all of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch and live in some of the most impoverished areas of the two cities.
  — Rachel Ryan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2021
• 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
• United, a club who had the gas cut off at Bank Street, so impoverished were they, now had a stadium to fit the increasing industry and prosperity of the area.
  — Michael Walker, The Athletic, 15 Mar. 2025
• The nuances of being the older sibling, and especially the eldest daughter of an impoverished, fractured or immigrant family, are beginning to gain more traction in mainstream media.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 12 Mar. 2025