be impoverished
Example Sentences
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But our way of existing will be impoverished in the process.
From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2023
Will our children be impoverished by better access to pre-K schooling?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2021
From his perspective, this approach fails to capture the needs of people living in suburban communities in newer housing who may be impoverished and/or economically insecure.
From Slate • Mar. 21, 2018
“You don’t want to be impoverished because your mother has cancer. It’s already bad enough that your mom has cancer.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2016
And so Sully, Economics, L, XII, XVI, was in favor of laws regulating outlay mainly from "mercantilistic" reasons, that the country might not be impoverished by the purchase of foreign expensive articles.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm
