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

Would it have corrupted him, since pauperize him further it could not?

From Seven English Cities by Howells, William Dean

You can pauperize me, and you can take away every rag I have on my back, too, if you want to, but I'll tell you one thing, you can't take away my independence.

From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Prouty, Olive Higgins

"A doctor has no right to pauperize people"—he said "pauper-wize people"—"any more than any one else."

From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil