impoverished
Example Sentences
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She went on to write a bestselling autobiographical novel, “Ruth Hall,” a rags-to-riches story about an impoverished widow who flies to fame with her newspaper column.
The impoverished North has moved to revive inbound tourism to earn much-needed hard cash in the face of sanctions over its nuclear programmes, developing lavish coast and mountain resorts.
From Barron's
The changes to this process, like every other computer-wrought change, have both improved and impoverished our lives, made them immeasurably better and immeasurably worse.
These holdings required the intense labor of impoverished farmworkers who were often forced from their traditional lands.
From Los Angeles Times
Reid’s impoverished youth in a tiny hamlet in southern Nevada gave him an iron will, steep ambition and a sizable chip on his shoulder.
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