be impoverished
Example Sentences
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But our way of existing will be impoverished in the process.
From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2023
If current trends continue, Reich said, swaths of boreal forests “will be impoverished, and they might even fall apart or collapse” over the next half-century unless warming slows.
From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022
Will our children be impoverished by better access to pre-kindergarten schooling?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2021
From his perspective, this approach fails to capture the needs of people living in suburban communities in newer housing who may be impoverished and/or economically insecure.
From Slate • Mar. 21, 2018
Millions were to be impoverished that she and her husband might pass through life reveling in luxury and charioted in splendor.
From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)