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
  • For many, poverty and despair hang over them like a toxic cloud.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • He wasn’t supposed to break out of the constraints of Macon, Georgia, of poverty.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Dec. 2023
  • So there have been a lot of episodes of hunger, poverty, war, political strife.
    — Jessica Carbone, Saveur, 29 May 2024
  • Doesn’t mean poverty wasn’t around him, doesn’t mean violence or crime wasn’t around him.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Einstein is in the Bronx, where more than a quarter of the population live in poverty.
    — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • The ambitious plan of action also set out to end poverty and hunger by 2030.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 28 Apr. 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
  • Being employed in the fast-food industry is the surest way to end up in poverty as a low-wage earner, a new study finds.
    — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 3 May 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
  • His policies haven’t come without consequence: One study found that the poverty rate reached 57%, the highest it’s been in two decades.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • The motive can range from adolescent rebellion to adult thrill-seeking to hand-to-mouth poverty.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
  • But Charlotte’s choice leads to a life of poverty; eighteen years later, her daughter, Corinna, also gives birth to a girl.
    — The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024

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