pauperize

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

“Sure they do,” Billy agreed, “only Nancy has kind of given up her struggle not to pauperize them.”

From Outside Inn by Kelley, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

The manner of giving it has changed, however, that it may be free from all tendency to pauperize or to deprive the recipient of self-respecting effort.

From The Making of a Trade School by Woolman, Mary Schenck

Probably no man living does that or ever did, and the practice of it on a large scale would pauperize the community.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks