During the dictatorship, many midwifes would sell the babies of impoverished people to the highest bidder.

Algeria can't become an impoverished nation.

Words such as "aselway," "aselkim," "tayri," "adabu," and "amulli" are all derived from various Berber lexical roots that have never been attested in the now impoverished Kabyle dialect.

Today we are witnessing an impoverishment: the apparent drying up of resources for all kinds of things that are badly needed. We seem to have no money for housing, for education, or for health and social services. And yet we have a deficit, and we are told by candidates for public office that we must cut the federal budget even more. This impoverishment is a mystery.

The logic and necessity of the new generation — and what they are so furiously opposed to — must be seen against a background of what has gone wrong in America. It must be understood in light of the betrayal and loss of the American dream, the rise of the Corporate State of the 1960's, and the way in which that State dominates, exploits, and ultimately destroys both nature and man. Its rationality must be measured against the insanity of existing "reason" — reason that makes impoverishment, dehumanization, and even war appear to be logical and necessary. Its logic must be read from the fact that Americans have lost control of the machinery of their society, and only new values and a new culture can restore control. Its emotions and spirit can be comprehended only by seeing contemporary America through the eyes of the new generation.

Taneda Santoka spent the twilight years of his life writing freestyle haiku as an impoverished, wandering drunkard.

As long as we consider only the growth of goods and ignore the growth of personal and community well-being, we will be impoverished by growth.

For a long time, society was strongly hierarchical and unequal, primarily composed of peasants. The most backward, impoverished segment of the population, they were crushed by the weight of taxes, wars, and famines.

Her people, who were mainly impoverished immigrants from far away, had the habit of crying a lot, and not just with tears.

The war lasting for years impoverished the country.