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

He did not propose to pauperize his farm by applying his personal ignorance to working it.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 10. by Twain, Mark

"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

There were some women who hesitated before they consented to pauperize themselves by marrying.

From What eight million women want by Dorr, Rheta Childe