be impoverished
Example Sentences
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Dahlia Lithwick: I find the public-facing discourse around shootings to be impoverished, dangerous, and a powder keg on its own terms.
From Slate • Sep. 12, 2025
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
“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
Wherever they encamp the country must be impoverished.
From The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal" by Fisher, Sydney George
