How to Use poverty in a Sentence

poverty

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  • He was born in poverty.
  • There is a poverty of information about the disease.
  • The child poverty rate in 2021 dropped to a record low.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Even amid the poverty of being black in the Jim Crow South, the world bloomed with wonders.
    — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Sources told the outlet that the studios plan to push writers to the brink of poverty all the way into the fall.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2023
  • Over time, global poverty slid down the cause list, while rogue AI climbed toward the top.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
  • The lack of generational wealth and high rates of poverty.
    — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • But the expansion expired at the end of 2021, and child poverty rates jumped back up after that.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The Portsmouth, Virginia, native just wanted the might to claw her way, and her mother’s way, out of a life of poverty.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 20 June 2023
  • Over the course of his recovery, the play examines the struggles of poverty in Grangeville.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • He wasn’t supposed to break out of the constraints of Macon, Georgia, of poverty.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Not long ago, technology was the big idea for enabling Africa to leapfrog its way out of poverty.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • In France, 8% of those aged 65 or older live in retirement poverty.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • And that was before the Covid-19 pandemic upended the lives of seniors living on the edge of poverty.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 31 May 2023
  • Sixty-five per cent of people in Gaza live in poverty, and around half are unemployed.
    — Rozina Ali, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Still, more than half of its roughly 20 million people live in poverty.
    — Xanthe Scharff, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2023
  • The country faced the threat of default last June and is suffering from rising poverty levels.
    — Kyra Colah, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • All are led by Republican governors and many of them have some of the highest poverty rates in the nation.
    — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The abject poverty and debt faced by many of India’s farmers has forced some to take extreme measures.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In Wyandotte County as a whole, 16% of residents live in poverty.
    — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In September of this year, the Census Bureau released the new poverty numbers.
    — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
  • But the one to blame for it is Hamas, who stole the future of Gazans and relegated them to a life of poverty and ongoing incitement.
    — TIME, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The trial is a spotlight on the woes of a country plagued by corruption, poverty and lawlessness.
    — Wesley Parnell, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • One school below the state's average 59% poverty rate received an F grade.
    — Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2023
  • At the same time, his economic policies saw income rise and lift millions from poverty.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a boy born in a trailer in Appalachia faces the challenges of childhood poverty with resilience.
    — Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The book includes stories from the couple’s actors and comedians friends as well tales from those in poverty and war.
    — Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The result keeps each adult in poverty instead of allowing the family to build more savings, take on more complex jobs and grow wages.
    — Katherine S. Newman, Scientific American, 7 July 2023
  • Underwood, her 10 children, and one grandchild had long lived in poverty.
    — TIME, 21 Mar. 2024

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