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poverty-stricken

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  1. poor enough to need help from others

How To Use poverty-stricken In A Sentence

  • There is immoral, unethical and illegal prosperity on the one side and poverty-stricken people who are moral and ethical on the other.
  • The poverty-stricken viceroyalty of Sardinia contributed little, Sicily somewhat more; most of the burden fell on Naples.
  • Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.
  • There are few jobs for the peasants who have flooded into the cities from the poverty-stricken countryside in search of work.
  • Can it be right to demand so much of such a young child, however great his talent appears and however wretched a life sold by his poverty-stricken mother to a pedlar who beat him he had led before? TV review: Leaving Amish Paradise; Kidult: Marathon Boy
  • In the poverty-stricken countryside, the situation is only going to deteriorate after WTO entry triggers imports of cheap foreign grain.
  • Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.
  • The woman's later life is described as lonely and poverty-stricken.
  • I saw people who are poverty-stricken but extremely rich within.
  • The debt of a poverty-stricken family trying to get enough to eat is not the same as a company reaching beyond its means to take on debt. Christianity Today
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