How to Use poverty in a Sentence

poverty

noun

• He was born in poverty.
• There is a poverty of information about the disease.
• The child poverty rate in 2021 dropped to a record low.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
• Even amid the poverty of being black in the Jim Crow South, the world bloomed with wonders.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
• Sources told the outlet that the studios plan to push writers to the brink of poverty all the way into the fall.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2023
• Over time, global poverty slid down the cause list, while rogue AI climbed toward the top.
  — Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
• The lack of generational wealth and high rates of poverty.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• But the expansion expired at the end of 2021, and child poverty rates jumped back up after that.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
• The Portsmouth, Virginia, native just wanted the might to claw her way, and her mother’s way, out of a life of poverty.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 20 June 2023
• Over the course of his recovery, the play examines the struggles of poverty in Grangeville.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• For many, poverty and despair hang over them like a toxic cloud.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• He wasn’t supposed to break out of the constraints of Macon, Georgia, of poverty.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Dec. 2023
• The shortfall is worse for districts with higher rates of poverty.
  — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
• So there have been a lot of episodes of hunger, poverty, war, political strife.
  — Jessica Carbone, Saveur, 29 May 2024
• Doesn’t mean poverty wasn’t around him, doesn’t mean violence or crime wasn’t around him.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2024
• Einstein is in the Bronx, where more than a quarter of the population live in poverty.
  — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 2 May 2024
• The ambitious plan of action also set out to end poverty and hunger by 2030.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2023
• Public schools that have a 40% pupil poverty rate or above are expected to stock at least 50% of the school's restrooms.
  — Suzanne Herman, refinery29.com, 2 Oct. 2024
• Not long ago, technology was the big idea for enabling Africa to leapfrog its way out of poverty.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• Being employed in the fast-food industry is the surest way to end up in poverty as a low-wage earner, a new study finds.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 3 May 2023
• In France, 8% of those aged 65 or older live in retirement poverty.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia. 5.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• And that was before the Covid-19 pandemic upended the lives of seniors living on the edge of poverty.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 31 May 2023
• Sixty-five per cent of people in Gaza live in poverty, and around half are unemployed.
  — Rozina Ali, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• Still, more than half of its roughly 20 million people live in poverty.
  — Xanthe Scharff, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2023
• His policies haven’t come without consequence: One study found that the poverty rate reached 57%, the highest it’s been in two decades.
  — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
• The country faced the threat of default last June and is suffering from rising poverty levels.
  — Kyra Colah, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2024
• Raised in poverty, Jones would often recall being forced to catch, cook and eat rodents, or go hungry.
  — Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 4 Nov. 2024
• Some of the elders still remember the days when most Shia were mired in rural poverty, mistreated not just by Lebanon’s other sects but by their own semifeudal overlords.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024