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"Poverty" in a Sentence (18 examples)
Rye was called the grain of poverty.
Girls are more likely than boys to be malnourished, suffer poverty, face violence and be refused an education, according to a new report.
We want freedom from poverty.
No poverty can catch up with industry.
Poverty is a stranger to industry.
How many people are now living in poverty?
Lander assumes that rioting and gang behavior are a result of poverty and poor economic conditions.
But the Nobel Committee said that poverty was a threat to world peace, and Mother Teresa worked against poverty.
The whole nation is waging a war against poverty.
I am happy in spite of poverty.
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From there Prince Rupert, the Royalist general and nephew of Charles I, demanded over £2,000 from the mayor of Leicester to pay the king's forces who were camped around Queniborough. The mayor, however, pleaded poverty and sent only £500.
America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
poverty of soil
poverty of the blood
poverty of spirit
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