Poverty

//ˈpɒvəti//

"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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get into poverty

get out of poverty

escape from poverty

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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