How to use poverty in a sentence

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More sentences with poverty

• It is difficult to live in poverty. And they lived happily ever after.From the entry live
• The governor selected a cadre of blue ribbon social scientists to serve on her poverty task force.From the entry blue ribbon
• It's easy to overromanticize the Middle Ages, but they were full of plague and poverty.From the entry overromanticize
• The wornness of the old man's clothes testified to his poverty.From the entry wornness
• Poverty is the ugly face of capitalism.From the entry face
• We’re trying to rid the world of poverty.From the entry rid
• Too many people are condemned to a life of poverty.From the entry condemn
• This book serves as a kick-starter for those who care deeply about tackling poverty but don’t know where to start.From the entry kick-starter
• His policies have condemned millions to poverty.From the entry condemn to
• Wealth begets wealth; poverty begets poverty.From the entry beget
• Poverty is the mother of ingenuity.From the entry ingenuity
• When their main crop failed because of drought, they had no choice but to tough it out: they lived in poverty that winter.From the entry tough out
• The governor declared war on poverty.From the entry declare war
• The direct result of socialising every day in the bars may be happiness and meeting new people, but the indirect results could be addiction, or even poverty.From the entry indirect
• After millenniums of austerity and poverty, the age of limitless “superabundance” was at hand.2025 March 18, Samuel Moyn, “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Mar…. From the entry millennium
• This dissonant combination of commodity wealth and mass poverty is not unusual.2025 November 4, Eric Levitz, “The most likely AI apocalypse: How artificial intelligence could be leading most humans into an inescapable…. From the entry resource curse
• Overall, the effect of green poverty reduction in southern Shaanxi was still not ideal.2020, Yingjuan Yang, Huifeng Xue, “Evaluation of Green Poverty Reduction in Southern Shaanxi Based on Comprehensive Weighting…. From the entry Hanbin
• Physical immortality on the polluted planet, where poverty still exists, is meaningless.2019, Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook, Springer, →ISBN, page 853. From the entry equalism
• Hoping to escape poverty and discrimination, some former slaves moved west.2017, James Oakes [et al.], “Reconstructing a Nation, 1865–1877”, in Of the People: A History of the United States with Sources, 3rd…. From the entry exoduster
• To help the sales of agricultural products is an effective means of poverty alleviation.2017, “2017 Annual Report”, in CITIC Securities, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2021. From the entry xi
• People in the village have managed to lift themselves out of poverty by planting Kyoho grapes.2016 [1989 June], Xi Jinping, “Strengthening the Great Unity of All Ethnic Groups- Reflections on Promoting the Common Prosperity of…. From the entry Fu'an
• Rising out of poverty will require not a lick and a promise but deep reform.2014 May 22, “EDITORIAL: India's Modi wins voter mandate for economic growth”, in Washington Times. From the entry lick and a promise
• America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four.2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11. From the entry world
• In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier.2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11. From the entry world
• America's poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four.2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry scourge
• They talked about war, poverty, music, films, property prices, and eco-apocalypse (especially that).2012, Iain Sinclair, Ghost Milk. From the entry eco-apocalypse
• We accept that a third of the population live on the poverty line.2010, Nuala O'Faolain, “An Ugly Little War”, in A More Complex Truth. From the entry materialism
• He believes that Democrats can win them back with issues like the drive to end poverty.2006 July 14, “Obama Works to Win Evangelicals Back for Democrats”, in npr. From the entry win back
• Because of the Depression, many people came to associate bare feet with poverty, indolence, or general white-trashery.2005 August, Anne Dingus, “Texas Myth #14”, in Texas Monthly, retrieved 15 Apr 2014. From the entry white trashery
• First, Negroes are trapped—as many whites are trapped—in inherited, gateless poverty.2004, Ronald H. Bayor, The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, →ISBN. From the entry gateless
• Timber was a sign of poverty, of our poor-white condition and backwardness: it made ‘bushies’ of us.1998, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 179. From the entry bushie
• They gillnetted, longlined, jigged, purse seined, and survived in the postwar years of poverty.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 228. From the entry purse-seine
• Ma and his neighbors in the village of Wudaoling above the government's official poverty line.1996 May 14, Richard Tomlinson, “Poverty Meets Consumerism in Inland China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Tongxin
• Piggy banks are helpful for persons with "peniaphobia," an abnormal fear of poverty.1994, Charlotte Foltz Jones, Mistakes That Worked, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry peniaphobia

Meaning of poverty

1. noun The quality or state of being poor; lack of money.
2. noun A deficiency of something needed or desired.

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Questions about poverty in a sentence

How do you use poverty in a sentence?

Poverty is used as a noun. For example: “It is difficult to live in poverty. And they lived happily ever after.”

What is a short sentence with poverty?

“escape from poverty”

What does poverty mean?

Poverty means the quality or state of being poor; lack of money.