pauperize

Example Sentences

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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

Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

That charity which is personal can neither harden nor pauperize.

From As We Are and As We May Be by Besant, Walter, Sir

Probably no man living does that or ever did, and the practice of it on a large scale would pauperize the community.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

“Don’t those things tend to pauperize the poor?”

From Outside Inn by Kelley, Ethel M. (Ethel May)