poverty-stricken
Example Sentences
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Poverty-stricken Lebanese and Syrian refugees beg on its sidewalks.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2022
Poverty-stricken Lebanese and Syrian refugees beg on its sidewalks.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2022
Poverty-stricken, they lived for a time with her mother in a small apartment and slept under the piano.
From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2017
For they that have been kings of the Plenteous Island and have not well approved them, are among the folk that you saw in the Poverty-stricken Island, lacking in all things good.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian
Poverty-stricken and besotted, she had enough to do to struggle along with her two children.
From Norse Tales and Sketches by Kielland, Alexander Lange
