Sample Sentences for
impoverish
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    Overuse has impoverished the soil.
    impoverished = made poor
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    She had become the woman of impoverished households—strong and hard and rough.  (source)
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    The Irish and the Italians were peasants, tenant farmers from the impoverished countryside of Europe.  (source)
    impoverished = poor
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    Better, he thought, to be in Burundi, if Burundi were at peace, than to live on the wrong, impoverished planet in New York.  (source)
    impoverished = poor
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    The technical revolution that began in the Renaissance led to the spinning jenny and to unemployment, to medicines and new diseases, to the improved efficiency of agriculture and the impoverishment of the environment, to practical appliances such as the washing machine and the refrigerator and pollution and industrial waste.†  (source)
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    And they were even going into debt to Tamoszius Kuszleika and letting him impoverish himself.†  (source)
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    To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.†  (source)
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    For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.†  (source)
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    The second- and third-generation Latinos on the block felt it was their working-class neighborhoods that bore the brunt of a wave of impoverished, unskilled workers.  (source)
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    This failed to happen, partly because of the impoverishment caused by a long series of wars and revolutions, partly because scientific and technical progress depended on the empirical habit of thought, which could not survive in a strictly regimented society.†  (source)
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    As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war.†  (source)
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    When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened.†  (source)
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    This impoverishes the rich, suffering no grandeur but its own.†  (source)
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