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'poverty' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'poverty' with 13 example sentences.


poverty noun

: the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions


  • More than 45 million Americans live in poverty.
  • Ethnic minorities struggle against prejudice, poverty, and oppression.
  • Poverty teaches you to eat bread without butter.
  • Cleanliness has nothing to do with poverty.
  • Communism is the equal distribution of poverty.
  • Poverty had taught him to stand on his own feet.
  • The family lived in poverty.
  • Rye was called the grain of poverty.
  • We're ashamed of our father's poverty.
  • The Millennium Development Goals aim to reduce hunger, poverty and disease.
  • My neighborhood is threatened by poverty.
  • The government promised to wipe out poverty.
  • We want freedom from poverty.
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