Sentences with poverty
pov·er·ty
P p - According to World Bank figures, 41 per cent of Brazilians live in absolute poverty.
- Britain has suffered from a poverty of ambition. [+ of]
- Poverty, the broadest of these terms, implies a lack of the resources for reasonably comfortable living; , destitution, want imply such great poverty that the means for mere subsistence, such as food and shelter, are lacking; , indigence, a somewhat euphemistic term, implies a lack of luxuries which one formerly enjoyed; , penury suggests such severe poverty as to cause misery, or a loss of self-respect
- A poverty of wit
- poverty of the soil, her poverty of imagination
- poverty of the soil.
- Their efforts to stamp out disease were hampered by a poverty of medical supplies.