Poverty-stricken
"Poverty-stricken" in a Sentence (3 examples)
War, disease, and famine continue to ravage the poverty-stricken country, despite the decades-long international effort to ameliorate the situation.
The village was poverty-stricken.
The small village was poverty-stricken, with many families struggling to afford even basic necessities like food and water.
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