pauperize

Example Sentences

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Runaway price boosts might wipe out savings, pauperize individuals, bring down governments —but usually in only one or a few countries at any specific time, and for what seemed fairly clear reasons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

They flocked to her, though she did not pauperize them by giving her services free.

From The Second Generation by Phillips, David Graham

"They're not well off, but we mustn't on any account pauperize them," was her verdict.

From The Princess of the School by Wiles, Frank

This policy was found to pauperize him and to unfit him for the competitions of civilized life.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various