Sample sentences for IMPOVERISH

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Definition

make someone poorer; or make something less valuable

Bad economic policy has impoverished the country.

impoverished = made poor

Climate change will hit impoverished areas the hardest.

impoverished = poor

Overuse has impoverished the soil.

impoverished = made poor

In this impoverished community of mud and stone huts, both Mortenson's life and the lives of northern Pakistan's children changed course.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea

impoverished = poor

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.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey

impoverished = poor

The Irish and the Italians were peasants, tenant farmers from the impoverished countryside of Europe.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

impoverished = poor

Better, he thought, to be in Burundi, if Burundi were at peace, than to live on the wrong, impoverished planet in New York.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains

impoverished = poor

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.
George Orwell -- 1984
She had become the woman of impoverished households—strong and hard and rough.
Guy de Maupassant -- The Diamond Necklace

impoverished = made poor

What a strange-looking youth, tall, prematurely aged, the big blue eyes faded with anxiety, the hair impoverished and tousled!
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
He was broken, harassed, and impoverished because of this.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
There were at least a dozen black football players from impoverished backgrounds auditioning for the role of Eliza Doolittle.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
But as for the recently impoverished Atlanta people, they could starve and drop in the streets for all the newly rich Republicans cared.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
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.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Yet most Africans, even in this group, are impoverished by low incomes and high cost of living.
Nelson Mandela -- I Am Prepared to Die
"His father's money must have run out, and he decided he'd rather be a wealthy traitor than an impoverished apprentice.
Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
And in impoverished areas where people wanted to forget about their reality because it was so bad, drug dealers had easy prey.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
The dangers of life in an impoverished city overcrowded with refugees were emphasized again one day when I was visiting Ellen.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Chicago's small but vocal censorians feared that impoverished parents would turn the building into a depository for unwanted children.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City

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