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Example sentences for "impoverished"

Lexicographically close words:
impots; impound; impounded; impounding; impoverish; impoverishes; impoverishing; impoverishment; impower; impowered
  1. The result is asserted to be that the men of the company are impoverished and like to be brought to ruin unless speedy remedy be provided.

  2. The companies are declared to be impoverished by the taking of inordinate numbers of apprentices.

  3. They desired to preserve the lands of the Chantries till the king came of age, when they hoped they might be devoted to the suitable object of augmenting the livings which had been in such numbers impoverished by the Reformation changes.

  4. Elizabeth's charter to the Merchant Adventurers of Bristol ordered them to distribute yearly among twenty poor men twenty "vestes panneas" and to assist all of the company who were impoverished by mischance or otherwise.

  5. The same sort of abuse is found in a complaint which appears in the Glovers' books in 1656: "the company is much impoverished by the taking in of foreigners freemen such as have not served" their due apprenticeship.

  6. A very large majority of the blacks in the North, are in an impoverished and degraded condition; and there is no sympathy with them, or for them, among Northern men.

  7. The Northern man with his leagues of land, surrounded by ignorant, indigent and impoverished families, is virtually a slaveholder.

  8. The treasury was empty, for no contributions could be collected from an impoverished population, and the island's future was compromised by loans at usurious rates.

  9. Everybody has been impoverished and thinking of going away.

  10. The people, he adds, were so impoverished that they could pay nothing for "Wapentakes.

  11. It is true, they urge the building of their new church, but likewise declare that they have been "impoverished by many other causes.

  12. Like other religious houses, the [p189] abbey of Winchcombe was impoverished by the consequences of the great mortality, and some years after it was unable to support its community and meet its liabilities.

  13. So terribly is it impoverished that it has nothing upon which to live, and on account of the arrears no one is willing to rent the lands and tenements of the priory.

  14. Madame de la Chanterie aided the Bourlacs and the Mergis, an impoverished family of magistrates who had persecuted her in 1809.

  15. Goertz led with superior skill the negotiations for peace, while the impoverished country suffered untold miseries as a consequence of his unscrupulous financial schemes.

  16. August, 1699, at the very summit of her political grandeur, to the impoverished and suffering Sweden in which he had now landed!

  17. The death of King Charles and the impoverished condition of the country made it impossible to continue the work on the great canal system, which had to wait for more than a century for its ultimate completion.

  18. But he is not so impoverished that he cannot on these occasions give his valet and his barber plenty of work to do preparing his face with razors, perfumes and washes.

  19. They were expected to contribute to the support of the sick and impoverished in their fellowship.

  20. Latterly, however, he fell out of favour, and, although he had been very rich, was impoverished by the fines which the king extorted from him.

  21. It is evident, from these results, that neither ashes nor phosphates had much effect on Indian corn, on this impoverished soil.

  22. If you grow potatoes for many years on the same land and manure them with nitrogenous manures, the soil is likely to be speedily impoverished of potash.

  23. This expedition, although it worried and impoverished the Spaniards, was not particularly profitable to the earl.

  24. War had impoverished an already poor and burdened country, and there were none of the resources available which are needed for the successful conduct of a great campaign.

  25. He was of a noble but impoverished family.

  26. And the dead are dead, and the scarred and impoverished will have to pick themselves up.

  27. The South believed itself impoverished to enrich the North by this system; and certainly a singular and unexpected result had been seen in these two sections.

  28. The 1994 genocide decimated Rwanda's fragile economic base, severely impoverished the population, particularly women, and eroded the country's ability to attract private and external investment.

  29. Since 1973, the UAE has undergone a profound transformation from an impoverished region of small desert principalities to a modern state with a high standard of living.

  30. The Canadian people, long harassed and impoverished by war, had at last a period of rest.

  31. As the number of impoverished peasants increased in inverse ratio to the tenant class, a time arrived when the demand for labor could no longer be supplied by tenants alone, and had to be provided for through wage labor.

  32. We have all seen Father Poisson, a Cordelier of Paris, who impoverished his convent to pay his mistresses, and who was imprisoned in consequence of the depravity of his manners.

  33. Whenever the blood is impoverished we may be tolerably certain that salt is, in a greater or lesser degree, absent, or below the standard, and that it is variable.

  34. It is not difficult for people with observing eyes to note the difference in satisfaction of children after they get impoverished foods and the natural foods.

  35. This impoverished rice is lacking in salts.

  36. They contain sugar in its best form, sugar that not impoverished by being deprived of its salts.

  37. This is proof enough that the cause of the disease is the impoverished food.

  38. Children fed on refined, impoverished foods are not satisfied with a reasonable amount.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impoverished" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.